Definitions for pressing

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pressing press·ing

Spelling: [pres-ing]

IPA: /ˈprɛs ɪŋ/

Pressing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 266 anagrams from letters in pressing (eginprss).

Definitions for pressing

noun

1. any phonograph record produced in a record-molding press from a master or a stamper.
2. a number of such records produced at one time:
3. an act of pressing; pressure.
4. the state of being pressed.
5. printed publications collectively, especially newspapers and periodicals.
6. all the media and agencies that print, broadcast, or gather and transmit news, including newspapers, newsmagazines, radio and television news bureaus, and wire services.
7. the editorial employees, taken collectively, of these media and agencies.
8. (often used with a plural verb) a group of news reporters, or of news reporters and news photographers:
9. the consensus of the general critical commentary or the amount of coverage accorded a person, thing, or event, especially in newspapers and periodicals (often preceded by good or bad):
10. printing press.
11. an establishment for printing books, magazines, etc.
12. the process or art of printing.
13. any of various devices or machines for exerting pressure, stamping, or crushing.
14. a wooden or metal viselike device for preventing a tennis or other racket from warping when not in use.
15. a pressing or pushing forward.
16. a crowding, thronging, or pressing together; collective force:
17. a crowd, throng, or multitude.
18. the desired smooth or creased effect caused by ironing or pressing:
19. pressure or urgency, as of affairs or business.
20. an upright case or other piece of furniture for holding clothes, books, pamphlets, etc.
21. Basketball. an aggressive form of defense in which players guard opponents very closely.
22. Weightlifting. a lift in which the barbell, after having been lifted from the ground up to chest level, is pushed to a position overhead with the arms extended straight up, without moving the legs or feet.
23. impressment into service, especially naval or military service.

Idioms

1. go to press, to begin being printed:
2. press the flesh, Informal. flesh (def 24).

adjective

1. urgent; demanding immediate attention:

verb (used with object)

1. to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
2. to move by weight or force in a certain direction or into a certain position:
3. to compress or squeeze, as to alter in shape or size:
4. to weigh heavily upon; subject to pressure.
5. to hold closely, as in an embrace; clasp:
6. to flatten or make smooth, especially by ironing:
7. to extract juice, sugar, etc., from by pressure:
8. to squeeze out or express, as juice:
9. to beset or harass; afflict:
10. to trouble or oppress; put into a difficult position, as by depriving:
11. to urge or entreat strongly or insistently:
12. to emphasize or propound forcefully; insist upon:
13. to plead with insistence:
14. to urge onward; hasten:
15. to push forward.
16. to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
17. to make use of in a manner different from that intended or desired:

verb (used without object)

1. to manufacture (phonograph records, videodiscs, or the like), especially by stamping from a mold or matrix.
2. to exert weight, force, or pressure.
3. Weightlifting. to raise or lift, especially a specified amount of weight, in a press.
4. to iron clothing, curtains, etc.
5. to bear heavily, as upon the mind.
6. (of athletes and competitors) to perform tensely or overanxiously, as when one feels pressured or is determined to break out of a slump; strain because of frustration:
7. to compel haste:
8. to demand immediate attention.
9. to use urgent entreaty:
10. to push forward or advance with force, eagerness, or haste:
11. to crowd or throng.
12. Basketball. to employ a press.

Origin of pressing

1300-50; Middle English presing (gerund); see press¹, -ing², -ing¹

Examples for pressing

A hundred doubts and fears were pressing upon him, and—the second bell rang.

After pressing it upon him, he at length took a portion of it.

A matter of most pressing importance is the revision of the tariff.

Alamuddin, 36, has a pressing work schedule back in London as well.

I saw our domestically focused agencies devote a substantial portion of their budgets to their pressing needs.

The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket.

She was relentless in pressing her husband and other officials to take risks and do what was right for the country.

The problem of days' journeys was not pressing at this moment.

pressing the dodge button at the right time causes her to temporarily burst into an invincible flock of crows.

It's not a problem not most of us have, but for those who do, it's a pressing social issue.