Pressure

Noun
pressure (countable and uncountable; plural: pressures)


 * 1)  The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
 * Units
 * SI: pascal (Pa) (1 pascal equals 1 newton per square metre)
 * Others: bar (1 bar equals 100000 pascals), barye (Ba) (1 barye equals 0.1 pascal), pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)
 * 1) A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
 * 2) Mental strain caused by one's own or others' expectations on one's own performance

Verb

 * 1)  To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

Adjectives for Pressure
systolic; lingering; diplomatic; lateral; injurious; fierce;  unreasoning;  excessive; fluid; common; great; stupendous; aggres¬sive; warm; angry; burning; teasing; atmospheric; irresistible; inevitable; convulsive; mechanical; extreme; sympathetic; cordial; normal; persistent; social; tremendous; superincumbent; opposing; diminished; insupportable; delicate; immense; inconstant; uniform; organized; undue; pecuniary; artificial.

Verbs for Pressure
alleviate—; apply—; counteract—; ease off—; employ—; exert—; expose to—; halt—; obliterate—; submit to—; succumb to—; subject to—; wobble under—; work under—; yield to—; —diminishes; —increases; —welds.

Thesaurus
duress, effect, emergency, eminence, enchantment, encouragement, encumbrance, esteem, exert pressure, exhort, exigence, exigencies, exigency, favor, feeling, fingering, force, freight, friction, frottage, goading, good feeling, greatness, handicap, handling, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, head, high pressure, high-pressure, hold, hustle, immediacy, impel, imperative, imperativeness, importance, importunacy, importunateness, importune, importunity, impulse, impulsion, incidental power, incubus, incumbency, inducement, influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, insist, insist on, insist upon, insistence, instance, intimidate, intimidation, irritation, jab, jawbone, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, lading, leadership, lean on, leverage, load, loading, lobby, magnetism, make, manipulation, mastery, matter of necessity, mental strain, millstone, moment, nag, nag at, nagging, needling, nervous strain, nervous tension, nip, nudge, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, palpation, persistence, personality, persuade, persuasion, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pester, pestering, petting, pinch, plague, plaguing, plead with, plight, ply, plying, poke, potency, power, precedence, predicament, predominance, preponderance, press, pressing, pressingness, prestige, prevail on, prevail upon, pricking, priority, problems, prod, prodding, prominence, punch, purchase, push, put pressure on, rank, rash impulse, recommend, reign, repute, require, rigor, rubbing, rule, rush, saddling, say, sea of troubles, seniority, shove, soft-soap, spurring, squeeze, squeezing, stature, strain, straits, strength, stress, stress and strain, stress of life, stroking, strong-arm tactics, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, superincumbency, supremacy, surcharge, sway, sweet-talk, tautness, taxing, tease, teasing, tenseness, tension, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, thrust, tightening, torque, torsion, touching, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, tweak, upper hand, urge, urgency, urgent need, urging, vale of tears, vexation, vicissitude, violence, weight, weightiness, wheedle, wheedling, whip hand, work on, abetment, adverse circumstances, adversity, advocate, affliction, aggravation, albatross, annoyance, apply pressure, argumentum baculinum, ascendancy, authority, bale, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bearing, beset, besiege, blandish, blandishment, blight, boost, bug, bummer, bump, bunt, burden, burdening, burthen, butt, buttonhole, buttonholing, cajole, cajolement, cajolery, call on, call upon, care, caressing, cargo, case of need, charge, charging, charisma, charm, clamping, clamping down, clout, clutch, coax, coaxing, coerce, coercion, compel, compression, compulsion, consequence, constrain, constraint, constraints, control, credit, crisis, cross, crunch, crush, crushing, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, demand, demandingness, demands, difficulties, difficulty, dig, dire necessity, distress, dominance, domination, downer, drag, drive, dun, dunning,

Etymology
From, from pressura:.

Derived terms

 * negative pressure
 * peer pressure
 * pressurize, pressurise
 * pressure altimeter
 * pressure altitude
 * pressure angle
 * pressure area
 * pressure atrophy
 * pressure bag
 * pressure bandage
 * pressure bar
 * pressure block
 * pressure cabin
 * pressure cable
 * pressure casting
 * pressure cell
 * pressure centre
 * pressure chamber
 * pressure coefficient
 * pressure contour
 * pressure cooker
 * pressure decline
 * pressure deflection
 * pressure depth
 * pressure distillate
 * pressure distribution
 * pressure effect
 * pressure element
 * pressure epiphysis


 * pressure fan
 * pressure field
 * pressure flaking
 * pressure flip
 * pressure force
 * pressure gauge
 * pressure gradient
 * pressure group
 * pressure head
 * pressure hull
 * pressure hydrophone
 * pressure ice
 * pressure interface
 * pressure ionization
 * pressure jump
 * pressure line
 * pressure maintenance
 * pressure mark
 * pressure melting
 * pressure microphone
 * pressure mine
 * pressure naphtha
 * pressure of speech and pressured speech
 * pressure pad
 * pressure paralysis
 * pressure pattern
 * pressure penitente
 * pressure pickup
 * pressure pillow
 * pressure pipe
 * pressure point


 * pressure radius
 * pressure rating
 * pressure regulator
 * pressure ridge
 * pressure ring
 * pressure roll
 * pressure seal
 * pressure sense
 * pressure sensibility
 * pressure-sensitive
 * pressure solution
 * pressure sore
 * pressure suit
 * pressure survey
 * pressure tank
 * pressure tap
 * pressure tendency
 * pressure tube
 * pressure tunnel
 * pressure ulcer
 * pressure vector
 * pressure vessel
 * pressure viscosity
 * pressure washer
 * pressure wave
 * pressure welding
 * pressure zone
 * under pressure

Noun

 * Arabic: ضغط
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 壓力, 压力
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: premo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: nyomás, levegőnyomás
 * Indonesian: tekanan
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 圧力
 * Korean: 압력 (壓力)
 * Latvian: spiediens
 * Macedonian: притисок
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పీడనం (peeDanam), ఒత్తిడి (ottiDi)
 * Turkish: basınç
 * Welsh: gwasgedd


 * Latin: ,


 * Russian:


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 壓力, 压力
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: притисок, пресија
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: èiginn
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఒత్తిడి (ottiDi)

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