Dictionary entry details
• PRESSURE (noun)
Meaning:
The force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
force per unit area; pressure; pressure level
Context example:
the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure
Hypernyms ("pressure" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pressure"):
vapor pressure; vapour pressure (the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form))
suction (a force over an area produced by a pressure difference)
instantaneous sound pressure; sound pressure (the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point)
corpuscular-radiation pressure; radiation pressure (the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave)
osmotic pressure ((physical chemistry) the pressure exerted by a solution necessary to prevent osmosis into that solution when it is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane)
oil pressure (pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine)
intraocular pressure (pressure inside the eyeball;regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor)
hydrostatic head (the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure)
head (the pressure exerted by a fluid)
gas pressure (the pressure exerted by a gas)
blood pressure (the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health)
Meaning:
A force that compels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the public brought pressure to bear on the government
Hypernyms ("pressure" is a kind of...):
force (a powerful effect or influence)
Meaning:
The act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
pressing; pressure; press
Context examples:
he gave the button a press / he used pressure to stop the bleeding / at the pressing of a button
Hypernyms ("pressure" is a kind of...):
push; pushing (the act of applying force in order to move something away)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pressure"):
impression (the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another)
compressing; compression (applying pressure)
decompressing; decompression (relieving pressure)
Meaning:
The state of demanding notice or attention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
insistency; imperativeness; insistence; press; pressure
Context examples:
the insistence of their hunger / the press of business matters
Hypernyms ("pressure" is a kind of...):
urgency (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)
Meaning:
The somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
pressure sensation; pressure
Context example:
the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal
Hypernyms ("pressure" is a kind of...):
somaesthesia; somatesthesia; somatic sensation; somesthesia (the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations)
Meaning:
An oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pressure" is a kind of...):
distress (a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need))
• PRESSURE (verb)
Meaning:
To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
pressure; hale; force; coerce; squeeze
Context examples:
She forced him to take a job in the city / He squeezed her for information
Hypernyms (to "pressure" is one way to...):
compel; obligate; oblige (force or compel somebody to do something)
Cause:
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pressure"):
terrorise; terrorize (coerce by violence or with threats)
dragoon; railroad; sandbag (compel by coercion, threats, or crude means)
squeeze for (squeeze someone for money, information, etc.)
steamroll; steamroller (bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure)
bludgeon (overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club)
drive (to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly)
turn up the heat; turn up the pressure (apply great or increased pressure)
bring oneself (cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Sentence example:
They pressure him to write the letter
Meaning:
Exert pressure on someone through threats
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
blackjack; blackmail; pressure
Hypernyms (to "pressure" is one way to...):
act upon; influence; work (have and exert influence or effect)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
