PRESSURE
Definition:
- [noun] the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit); "the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure"
Synonyms: level, force per unit area
- [noun] a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
- [noun] the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button"
Synonyms: press, pressing
- [noun] the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters"
Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press
- [noun] the somatic sensation of pressure; "the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal"
Synonyms: sensation
- [noun] an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- [verb] to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
Synonyms: coerce, hale, squeeze, force
- [verb] exert pressure on someone through threats
Synonyms: blackmail, blackjack
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Related Words:
- turn up the heat, turn up the pressure
- drive
- bludgeon
- steamroller, steamroll
- squeeze for
- dragoon, sandbag, railroad
- terrorize, terrorise
- bring oneself
- blood pressure
- gas pressure
- head
- hydrostatic head
- intraocular pressure
- oil pressure
- osmotic pressure
- radiation pressure, corpuscular-radiation pressure
- sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure
- suction
- vapor pressure, vapour pressure
- impression
- compression, compressing
- decompression, decompressing
