pressing

English Online Dictionary. What means pressing‎? What does pressing mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ

Adjective

pressing (comparative more pressing, superlative most pressing)

1. Needing urgent attention.
2. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pressing.

Derived terms

• pressingly
• pressingness

Translations

Noun

pressing (plural pressings)

1. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
2. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
3. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
4. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
5. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
6. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
7. Urgent insistence.

Derived terms

Verb

pressing

1. present participle and gerund of press

Anagrams

• springes, presigns, spersing, Spigners, Persings

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from pressing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ.siŋ/ ~ /pʁe.siŋ/

Noun

pressing m (plural pressings)

1. dry cleaning shop, a dry-cleaner's

Further reading

• “pressing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from press(ure) +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛs.sinɡ/, /ˈprɛs.sin/
• Rhymes: -ɛssinɡ, -ɛssin
• Hyphenation: près‧sing

Noun

pressing m (invariable)

1. (sports, especially soccer) continuous and pressing action that does not allow the opposing team to catch its breath, aiming to remove the ball from its possession
2. (figurative, by extension) pressure

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