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pressure
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a pressure gauge ▪ He checked the pressure gauge on the oxygen cylinder. a pressure group (= one that tries to make the government do something ) ▪ Friends of the Earth is Britain’s leading environmental pressure ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Pressure " is a synthesizer -driven song from 1982 by Billy Joel about the pressure of creating and the pressure of being a provider. The song was a single from the album The Nylon Curtain .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pressure \Pres"sure\ (?; 138), n. [OF., fr. L. pressura, fr. premere. See 4th Press .] The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; ...
Usage examples of pressure.
She had barely objected when he told her of his new affiliation with the Beller people, and she had said nothing in these past ten days, when the pressure of conflicting cross-currents had kept him bottled up within himself, unloving, cold.
What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.
To gain this they have stolen hours from the pressure of affairs, and disregarded the allurements of luxurious ease, labouring steadfastly, hoping eagerly.
My contention is that they were impelled, not by the teachings of Anarchism, but by the tremendous pressure of conditions, making life unbearable to their sensitive natures.
Trade had expired under the pressure of anarchy and distress, and the numbers of inhabitants had decreased with the opulence of the city.
The skull resisted, but the anatomist increased his pressure slightly, and Molly felt and heard a fizzing sound as the bone rippled and parted to make way for the metal.
Who had ever said, for instance, that the fund-holders and annuitants felt the general pressure?
The annulus was filled with tanks and air bottles and batteries and piping, all leaving more room inside the pressure hull.
One of the most common symptoms of anteversion is a frequent desire to urinate, in consequence of the pressure of the uterus upon the bladder.
Chapter 64: Thursday, 18870811:0827 The sudden pressure in his ears, along with the hiss that rose to a quick crescendo before dying away, told George that the car had arrived in the warehouse.
Saturated with Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus -- Drying Apparatus, in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created, Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere -- Drying by Means of Superheated Steam, without Air --Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material, Losses of Heat -- Index.
All far too rushed and desperate, but - like all the greatest leaders - the Archimandrite knew that he was at his best when he was under pressure, when the odds were against him and victory was far from certain.
On the other hand, no astronaut, regardless of the pressure we put him under, has ever developed a gastric ulcer.
The autopilot was taking the aircraft down, as fast as it could safely go, into the thicker atmosphere at 30,000 feet where they would find enough ambient pressure to make the oxygen masks workable.
MOON POOL ROOM - LATER Barnes opens a hatch to the ocean, kept at bay by the positive pressure in the airlock room.