| 单词 | pressing |
| 释义 | pressing (once / 273 pages) adjn If something's pressing, it's very important and should be taken care of right away. Your French club's most pressing issue might be raising money for the big trip to Montreal. Pressing business needs urgent attention, and pressing problems will turn into disasters if you don't figure out a quick way to solve them. Another meaning of pressing is "the act of exerting a strong pressure," like the pressing of apples into delicious cider. Pressing comes from the verb press, "to push against" or "to squeeze out," and later also "to urge or argue for." WORD FAMILYpressing: pressingly, pressings+/depressurize: depressurized, depressurizes, depressurizing/overpressure: overpressures/press: pressed, presses, pressing, pressure/pressed: unpressed/pressure: overpressure, pressured, pressures, pressuring, pressurise, pressurize/pressurise: depressurise/pressurize: depressurize, pressurized, pressurizing USAGE EXAMPLESA CT scan found a 15-centimeter tumor in his chest, so big it was pressing on his windpipe. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Grimes, no longer on crutches and already pressing eighty pounds with his bad leg, watched from the sidelines. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) For now, the more pressing priority is weathering an uncommon rash of injuries in the frontcourt. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj compelling immediate action too pressing to permit of longer delay Syn urgent imperative requiring attention or action 2n the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure at the pressing of a button Syn|Hypo|Hyper press, pressure impression the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another compressing, compressionapplying pressure squeeze, squeezingthe act of gripping and pressing firmly condensation, condensingthe act of increasing the density of something compaction, crunch, crushthe act of crushing constrictionthe action or process of compressing push, pushing the act of applying force in order to move something away 3n a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press Hyper part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact |
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