Definitions for pressure

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pressure pres·sure

Spelling: [presh-er]

IPA: /ˈprɛʃ ər/

Pressure is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in pressure (eeprrssu).

Definitions for pressure

noun

1. the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it:
2. Physics. force per unit area. Symbol: P. Compare stress (def 6).
3. Meteorology. atmospheric pressure.
4. Electricity. electromotive force.
5. the state of being pressed or compressed.
6. harassment; oppression:
7. a constraining or compelling force or influence:
8. urgency, as of affairs or business:
9. Obsolete. that which is impressed.

verb (used with object)

1. to force (someone) toward a particular end; influence:
2. pressurize.

Origin of pressure

1350-1400; Middle English (noun) Latin pressūra. See press¹, -ure

Examples for pressure

It's a lot of pressure on host/producer Sarah Koenig, something she addresses in the beginning of the episode.

The pressure against my throat seemed completely constricting.

Certain faculties develop in response to the pressure of environment.

So great was the pressure of the throng that men fainted and had to be carried out.

It is the crisis which makes the pressure, and not the laws which provide a remedy for it.

The pressure worked against Zarif and it can work again today.

Does any of that come from being attuned to the pressure of that need to entertain?

The 2014 midterm elections are just months behind us, but already Flake feels the pressure of the 2016 presidential elections.

Quite often the cave gave way to the pressure of the surrounding rock.

At a pressure of 20 pounds, the temperature will be about 260 degrees.