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pressing

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pressing in winemaking is the process where juice is extracted from grapes. This can be done with the aid of a wine press , by hand, or even by the weight of the own grape berries and clusters. Historically, intact grape clusters were trodden by feet but ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a pressing problem (= one that needs to be dealt with very soon ) ▪ Lack of clean drinking water is the most pressing problem facing the refugees. a pressing/crying need (= a very urgent need ) ▪ There’s a crying ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pressing \Press"ing\, a. Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. -- Press"ing*ly , adv.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: urgent ]

Usage examples of pressing.

Additionally, use your free fingers to gently massage his testicles, pressing against his perineum or grazing his anal area.

Broken hearted over these letters, Camilla spent her time in their perpetual perusal, in wiping from them her tears, and pressing with fond anguish to her lips the signature of her hapless sister, self-beguiled by her own credulous goodness, and self-devoted by her conscientious scruples.

This, her first direct leap for liberty, set Clara panting, and so much had she to say that the nervous and the intellectual halves of her dashed like cymbals, dazing and stunning her with the appositeness of things to be said, and dividing her in indecision as to the cunningest to move him of the many pressing.

One or two leaned against the rock wall, pressing their brows to the damp stone as if that might assuage their growing thirst.

The question before the group was as obvious as it was pressing, and the Jedi were well-enough attuned to each other to realize their next task was making a plan.

Adrian had to extemporize, that the baronet had gone down to Wales on pressing business, and would be back in a week or so.

I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.

In 1865 the most pressing and puzzling problem in organic structural chemistry was the nature of the benzene molecule.

Vivian left her writing-table and came toward Bernard, smiling at him and pressing her hands together.

How happy I am to see you Thayla pushed past the openmouthed Blad and embraced her husband, pressing herself tightly against his body and working her fingers against the muscles of his back.

With the blader gaining speed from behind and the crowd pressing closer in front of him, Barry knew his opportunity to be alone today had blown away with the San Francisco wind, eaten away by the aggressive needs of the crowds that never stopped coming to see him.

Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed.

Queen-attendants came up close against him, surrounding him on all sides, their hard shells and bristly limbs pressing tight.

An ambassador was sent to London with representations of the imminent dangers which threatened the republic, and he was ordered to solicit in the most pressing terms the assistance of his Britannic majesty, that the allies might have a superiority in the Netherlands by the beginning of the campaign.

The Federation has an educated but cheap and abundant labor force, a patchy welfare state, exportable natural endowments, a low tax burden and a pressing need for unhindered inflows of foreign investment.