英语词汇“pressing”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pressing
释义	press·ing I. \ˈpresiŋ, -sēŋ\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English pressinge, from gerund of pressen to press 1. : an exertion of pressure or a process using pressure < requires only the pressing of a button > < the pressing of apples for cider > < the pressing of cheese > 2. : the product of any of numerous mechanical presses: as a. : a metal part stamped, pierced, or formed in a press < pressings for many of the most famous names in the British motor-car industry — Punch > b. : a glass or ceramic article formed by forcing a tempered clay mixture or hot glass into a mold c. (1) : a phonograph record made from a matrix by compression or injection molding (2) : the whole number of records made at one time < the first pressing of her song > II. adjective Etymology: from present participle of press (II) 1. : urgently important : critical < the pressing necessity of earning a livelihood — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > < I've more pressing things to think about than girls — C.B.Kelland > < a pressing demand > 2. : earnest, warm < a pressing invitation > < pressing attentions > Synonyms: pressing, urgent, imperative, crying, importunate, insistent, exigent, instant can mean, in common, claiming or demanding immediate attention. pressing characterizes what makes an unavoidable claim upon one's concern as if pressure were applied < a pressing need > < pressing problems > urgent is stronger than pressing, suggesting constraint or compulsion of one's attention < his voice was urgent and incisive — Elinor Wylie > < an urgent seriousness underlay his words — W.H.Wright > < the urgent needs of the war — T.B.Costain > < urgent expenses > imperative puts stress upon the obligatory nature of the task, need, or duty that lays claim to attention < the imperative need for a more spacious home — Havelock Ellis > < a remonstrance had become imperative — Samuel Butler †1902 > < imperative orders — Sir Winston Churchill > crying puts stress upon the extreme, often shocking, conspicuousness of the thing claiming attention < a crying need to make American cities better places in which to live and work — L.E.Cooper > < a crying scandal of the times — J.T.Farrell > < crying disproportion between ambition and accomplishment — W.C.Brownell > importunate stresses pertinacity in demanding, often to the point of annoyance or nagging < a thick fringe of importunate hangers-on — Claudia Cassidy > < the troublesome and importunate monk — H.T.Buckle > < hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch — Time > insistent is not as strong as importunate; it implies, however, an insisting or an unremitting claiming on attention < the insistent friendliness of sextons — Robert Lynd > < the clamor of his insistent admirers — Saxe Commins > < insistent problems > exigent is close to urgent or pressing but implies more an imperative demand for action than a claim upon attention < outlasting the adverse circumstance, however exigent and oppressive — Times Literary Supplement > < exigent foreign diplomats — Janet Flanner > < the exigent demands of war — Allan Nevins > instant is an older form in general interchangeable with insistent, or especially urgent or importunate, but sometimes suggesting perseverance < was instant that I should continue at Oxford — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < the instant need — John Buchan > < down the other side of High Street he walked, his eyes instant for suggestion and opportunity — Arthur Morrison > < they would teach in Sunday schools, and be instant, in season and out of season, in imparting spiritual instruction — Samuel Butler †1902 >
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