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pressing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??s??/
Adjective
pressing (comparative more pressing, superlative most pressing)
- Needing urgent attention.
- 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism' (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]
- Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 75,
- “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
- 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism' (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]
- Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,
- You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
- 1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"
- He was pressing and persuasive.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,
Quotations
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pressing.
Derived terms
- pressingly
- pressingness
Translations
Noun
pressing (plural pressings)
- The application of pressure by a press or other means.
- A metal or plastic part made with a press.
- The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
- 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.
- The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
- A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
- Urgent insistence.
Verb
pressing
- present participle of press
Anagrams
- Persings, Spigners, spersing, springes
French
Etymology
A pseudo-anglicism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.si?/, /p?e.si?/
Noun
pressing m (plural pressings)
- dry cleaning shop, a dry-cleaner's
Italian
Noun
pressing m (invariable)
- (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
- (figuratively, transferred sense) Pressing (application of pressure)
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discouraging
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?k???d???/
Verb
discouraging
- present participle of discourage
Adjective
discouraging
- that causes discouragement
Translations
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:disheartening
Noun
discouraging (plural discouragings)
- discouragement
- August 6, 1841, Lydia Ann Barclay, letter to J. B.
- But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]
- August 6, 1841, Lydia Ann Barclay, letter to J. B.
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