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significant
English
Etymology
From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s???n?.f?.k?nt/
- (US, also) IPA(key): /s???n?.f?.??nt/
Adjective
significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)
- Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- Synonym: meaningful
- It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
- Having a covert or hidden meaning.
- Having a noticeable or major effect.
- Synonym: notable
- Reasonably large in number or amount.
- (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
Usage notes
- This word may be ambiguous in some situations. In formal writing, care should be taken with comments such as "the difference is significant," because it is not clear without contextual clues whether significant modifies the fact that there is a difference ("notable"), or the difference itself ("large in number or amount"). In some such situations, large and other synonyms may be used in its place.
Synonyms
- important
Antonyms
- insignificant
- ignorable
- negligible
- slight
Related terms
- significance
- significand
- significant other
- signify
Translations
Noun
significant (plural significants)
- That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
- a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
- And in my glass significants there are
- a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
References
significant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Catalan
Verb
significant
- present participle of significar
Latin
Verb
significant
- third-person plural present active indicative of signific?
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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)
pressing From the web:
- what pressing is my record
- what pressing is my vinyl
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