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pressure (s) (noun), pressures (pl)
1. A force which is used to bear weight down on something: When Susan hurt herself badly while doing gardening, she put pressure on the wound to stop it bleeding.
2. The force which is created by the amount of liquid or gas in a container: The pressure in the sealed pot made it possible for the food to be prepared in a shorter amount of time than without such a special pot.
3. The act of persuading or threatening a person to do something: Jack put a lot of pressure on his sister so that she would not reveal his secret to his girlfriend.
4. The stress and demands a person experiences when very important issues are pending and must be done in a short time: Sometimes Mrs. Smart experienced a lot of pressure when she had to finish correcting the exams to return to the students the following day!
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
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pressure (verb), pressures; pressured; pressuring
To attempt to coerce, push, or influence an individual into doing something: Jane told me that her boyfriend pressured her into staying out with him beyond the time she was to be home again.
Word Entries containing the term: “pressures
abdominal pressure (s) (noun), abdominal pressures (pl)
Pressure surrounding the bladder from rectal, gastric, or intraperitoneal force, or from the area that contains the abdominal organs: Jackie was suffering from abdominal pressure and so she went to her doctor for an examination.
This entry is located in the following units: abdomin-, abdomino-, abdomen- (page 2) -al; -ial, -eal (page 2)
atmospheric pressure (s) (noun), atmospheric pressures (pl)
A unit of barometric pressure that is taken to be the standard pressure of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level: The average atmospheric pressure at sea level is approximately 14.7 pounds per square inch.

With an increasing altitude, the atmospheric pressure decreases. For example, at 30,000 feet, approximately the height of Mt. Everest, the air pressure is 4.3 pounds per square inch.

The atmospheric pressure at any point in an atmosphere is due solely to the weight of the atmospheric gases above the point concerned.

This entry is located in the following units: atmo-, atm- + (page 4) sphero-, spher-, -sphere- (page 4)
geostatic pressure, ground pressure, lithostatic pressure, rock pressure (s) (noun); geostatic pressures; ground pressures; lithostatic pressures; rock pressures (pl)
The pressure of the weight of overburden exerted on a rock formation by movements of the Earth: One way how geostatic pressure takes place is by diastrophic forces that are caused by rock movements that shape the crust of the planet Earth.
This entry is located in the following units: geo-, ge- + (page 18) litho-, lith-, -lith, -lithic, -lite, -liths, -lites (page 5)
vapor pressure (s) (noun), vapor pressures (Pl)
1. The pressure at which a liquid and its moisture particles are equal to each other at a given temperature.
2. The pressure exerted by mist, or clouds, in the atmosphere which are independent of any other gases or water particles.
This entry is located in the following unit: vapori-, vapor-, vapo- (page 2)