different between threat vs pressure

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: thr?t, IPA^(key): /???t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þr?at (“crowd, swarm, troop, army, press; pressure, trouble, calamity, oppression, force, violence, threat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, closely tied to Proto-Germanic *þraut? (“displeasure, complaint, grievance, labour, toil”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”), whence also Middle Low German dr?t (“threat, menace, danger”), Middle High German dr?z (“annoyance, disgust, horror, terror, fright”), Icelandic þraut (“struggle, labour, distress”), Latin tr?d? (“push”, verb).

Noun

threat (plural threats)

1. An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3

     There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.

2. An indication of potential or imminent danger.
3. A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

Usage notes

Adjectives at least commonly used along with the noun: existential, possible

Derived terms

• idle threat

Related terms

• threaten
• threatening

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English threten, from Old English þr?atian (“to press, oppress, repress, correct, threaten”). Akin to Middle Dutch dr?ten (“to threaten”).

Verb

threat (third-person singular simple present threats, present participle threating, simple past and past participle threated)

1. (transitive) To press; urge; compel.
2. (transitive, archaic) To threaten.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye […]

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 37:

     O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.

3. (intransitive) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.

Anagrams

• Hatter, hatter, rateth, that're

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin press?ra.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?sh?-?(r), IPA^(key): /?p????(?)/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?p???.?(?)]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?p???.?]
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: pres?sure

Noun

pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)

1. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

   Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.

2. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind

   the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
3. Distress.
   • 1649, Eikon Basilike

     My people's pressures are grievous.

   • October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's

     In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
4. Urgency

   the pressure of business

5. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
6. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.

Synonyms

• (distress): affliction, grievance
• (urgency): press

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)

1. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

   Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.

Translations

See also

• (units of pressure): pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in², lb/in²), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)

Anagrams

• perusers

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: pressurent, pressures

Verb

pressure

1. first-person singular present indicative of pressurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pressurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pressurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pressurer
5. second-person singular imperative of pressurer

Latin

Participle

press?re

1. vocative masculine singular of press?rus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin press?ra.

Noun

pressure f (oblique plural pressures, nominative singular pressure, nominative plural pressures)

1. pressure (action or result of pressing)

Descendants

• ? English: pressure