different between vexing vs pressing

English

Etymology

From Middle English vexynge (“harassment”); equivalent to vex +? -ing.

Verb

vexing

1. present participle of vex

Noun

vexing (plural vexings)

1. vexation
   • 2002, Harold Bloom, American Women Poets, 1650-1950

     Many unkindnesses as well as (one feels) many liberties and general vexings, were required to move her to this.

Middle English

Noun

vexing

1. Alternative form of vexynge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??s??/

Adjective

pressing (comparative more pressing, superlative most pressing)

1. 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.”

2. 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.

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.

Verb

pressing

1. 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)

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

Italian

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. (figuratively, transferred sense) Pressing (application of pressure)