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press in English:

1. pressing pressing


He admitted it was a pressing issue.
We have some pressing problems to solve.
These trousers need pressing.
The issue of Third World poverty is very pressing.
I have a pressing feeling in my stomach.
The union is pressing for a ten-percent pay hike.
It is pressing message.
And right now she had more pressing problems to think about.
Problem is pressing and demands immediate attention.
pressing problem
The two felt the pressing necessity of earning a livelihood.
The rise in prices is pressing our family budget.
It's only manners to tackle all out a game that they have gone all out in creating. Pressing the pause button is just rude!
I wonder whether I can add a sentence simply by pressing the Enter key.
Time is pressing every moment.

English word "press"(pressing) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

2. force force


I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
Don't force me.
Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
The restraining role that the community once played is losing its force as adults become reluctant to reprimand other people's unruly children.
Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism.
Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.
Career opportunities, flex-time, satellite offices, and more childcare facilities are required to make women at home join the work force.
Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.
This is not about my capabilities. Even if I never had heard the slightest sound of english, I still could kneel down and put my face on the ground to show my submission. But who can force me into that?
The sexes differ, not only in stature and muscular force, but perhaps even more decisively in temperament, and this must early have given rise to a corresponding division of labour.
The police were able to control the crowd by sheer force of numbers. The force of gravity. Fishermen are always at the mercy of the forces of nature. Force of habit.
They are forced to commit further, often more violent crimes, until the situation gets totally out of control.

3. a device for applying pressure to something in order to flatten or shape it or to extract juice or oil a device for applying pressure to something in order to flatten or shape it or to extract juice or oil



4. pressure pressure


Reynolds' blood pressure is dangerously high, especially when he's mad.
under pressure
I know that you're strong, but political pressure will be stronger.
However, maybe from the sudden change in pressure when you put them, having your ears pop is a problem.
Human rights groups are putting pressure on authoritarian governments.
It has happened that people sleeping with the fan on have experienced a freezing of the stomach, as well as a local air pressure stress leading them to feel unwell.
The Prime Minister became all the more popular because he never gave way to pressure from the neighboring country.
And in many countries, where the animals are already under pressure because their homes are being destroyed by agriculture, things can get even worse.
In other aspects, the results of Laowang's health examination were all quite normal; it was just that his blood pressure was a bit high.
We should bear in mind that only relaxed people living without too much pressure and worry have a chance to keep healthy.
The pressure of international competition in the motor industry is very strong.
The pressure that such a pool of magma exerts on the crust above has lifted Yellowstone and its surrounding territory about half a kilometre higher than they would otherwise be.
I don’t like it when people put too much pressure on me to buy something.
Although the pressure of studying at the University of Cambridge is very high, many students still have time to go out and have fun.

English word "press"(pressure) occurs in sets:

Word formation

5. press press


I'm hopeless at ironing so I buy permanent press clothes.
press the button
During the press conference, the President touched on foreign relations.
The potato ricer, similar to the garlic press, is essential to making lefse.
There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press.
Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing A happy daisy, in the garden path That so your silver foot might press me going, Might press me going even unto death.
Powerlifting is a sport in which athletes compete to lift the maximum sum weight of the three heavy weight events, squat, bench press and deadlift.
The US judicial system and press are incredible: One day you're a poor examplary housewife, victim of a rape, the next, you're an illegal immigrant, having committed perjury and being suspected of whitewashing drug money.
The queen took umbrage at remarks made in the press about her insensitivity to the death of the princess.
It's fruitless to press him further.
Most of the politicians hate press.
It was just good enough to make me press ‘next’ every time the episode finished.
She has been criticized in the press for not speaking out on this issue.
I like your dress so much I wish there was an 'I like' button I could press.