Pressing
['presɪŋ] or ['prɛsɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press.
(adj.) compelling immediate action; 'too pressing to permit of longer delay'; 'the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!''; 'bridges in urgent need of repair' .
Typed by Hannah--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Press
(a.) Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.
Inputed by Augustine
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Urgent, importunate.
Edited by Jason
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Urgent_compulsory, importunate
ANT:Unimportant, slight, trivial, light
Checker: Walter
Examples
- I know, my dear, he replied, pressing my arm, I know all that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You needn't repeat 'em,' says Wegg, pressing his hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Dear friend, she said, pressing the hand which held hers, how good, how kind you always have been to me! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Laughing and pressing her arm, he retorted: 'But still, again for instance; would you exercise that power? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Gathering me to his breast, pressing his lips on my lips: so, Jane! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These are the motives which I have been pressing on you. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The air in the long arm is pressing upon the mercury in that arm, and is tending to force it up the short arm. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The next operation is for moulding and pressing the brick. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The time was not yet quite ripe for the road, but the needs of trade were growing more and more pressing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- By the way, there does not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The sick man drew a hand of his old fellow-prisoner towards him, and pressing it affectionately between both his own, retained it in his grasp. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The warm, light sea-air rising, the heavy, cold land-air pressing into its place. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- King Mithridates of Pontius, the Hellenized king of the southern shores of the Black Sea east of Bithynia, was pressing Rome into war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My dearest Fanny, cried Edmund, pressing her arm closer to him, do not let the idea of her anger distress you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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