Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
High-pressure \High"-pres`sure\ (?; 135), a.
Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.
Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.
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Using intense psychological pressure or other incentives to convince others to do things; aggressively persistent; as, high-pressure salesmen; high-pressure tactics.
High-pressure engine, an engine in which steam at high pressure is used. It may be either a condensing or a noncondensing engine. Formerly the term was used only of the latter. See Steam engine.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Operating with high pressures, such as several times atmospheric pressure but relative. 2 tense, stressful.
WordNet
adj. aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman" [syn: hard-hitting]
Usage examples of "high-pressure".
High-pressure air and fuel were mixed in the HIGH FLIGHT 537 combustor to create a controlled explosion, the mixture burning as high as thirty-eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
Later, when the sky was brighter and the aircraft were preparing for departure, all trace of it would have to be cleared off under the high-pressure blast of the deicing hose.
The man looked at it curiously, the elongated teardrop of high-pressure steel lying in its timber cradle not far from the floatplane dock.
The high-pressure jet tended to bend floorward owing to the extra gravity but he did finally manage to cover the infant with food.
These include rifle bullets and shot of both explosive and nonexplosive varieties, which can be fired semiautomatically or automatically, low-yield grenades, low-yield guided rockets, high-pressure flammable liquid, and microwave energy beams.
The nose truck has two wheels, while each other truck has four wheels with nonskid, high-pressure tires that can bear almost 425,000 pounds.
Two hundred feet aft the huge control surfaces, driven by high-pressure hydraulics, went to the dive position, forcing the submarine to a down angle.
Working with high-pressure hoses in total darkness they had swept a number of inadequately clothed old-age pensioners who had escaped from the almshouses down the street before turning their attention to the Public Library which they had filled with foam.
Wilforce was reminded of the high-pressure spheres in which Planet Certification lowered its men to the ocean depths.
All the hotter hours of the day have I worked in the bush felling trees, sawing and splitting logs, and adzing rough timber, the while November's unclouded sun evaporated perspiration almost as speedily as it flowed from high-pressure pores.
A third hose on the port side was coupled up, but the release valve refused to turn: attacked with hammers and crowbars, it sheered off at the base-at extremely low temperatures, molecular changes occur in metals, cut tensile strength to a fraction-the high-pressure water drenching everyone in the vicinity.
He was a high-pressure man, who had run his own business much along the lines of personal supervision which Ardmore had been using up to then.
Still they gave a starting-point for the flame of the high-pressure acetylene torch.
Still they gave a starting point for the flame of the high-pressure acetylene torch.
If he dove down to the Triton's engine box and located the high-pressure air cylinder, he could use it to blow the negative ballast tank.