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Word Meanings - PRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.

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  • PRESSIROSTRAL
    Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
  • PRESSIVE
    Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
  • PRESSGANG
    See PRESS
  • URGENT
    Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send
  • PRESSURAGE
    1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
  • PRESSURE WIRES
    Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
  • PRESSWORK
    The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.
  • PRESSLY
    Closely; concisely.
  • TAXATION
    The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. 3. Tax; sum imposed. Daniel. 4. Charge; accusation. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members
  • PRESSOR
    Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood
  • PRESSIROSTER
    One of a tribe of wading birds including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
  • PRESS REVISE
    A proof for final revision.
  • PRESSURE
    The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area. Atmospheric pressure, Center of pressure, etc. See
  • PRESSITANT
    Gravitating; heavy. Dr. H. More.
  • PRESSBOARD
    A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.
  • PRESSING
    Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. -- Press"ing*ly, adv.
  • PRESSION
    An endeavor to move. (more info) 1. The act of pressing; pressure. Sir I. Newton.
  • OPPRESSIVE
    1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering;
  • PRESSER
    One who, or that which, presses. Presser bar, or Presser wheel , a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth
  • HOTPRESSED
    Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
  • HOTPRESS
    To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • INCOMPRESSIBLE
    Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
  • ASSURGENT
    Ascending;
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
  • REPRESSIBLE
    Capable of being repressed.
  • EXURGENT
    Arising; coming to light.
  • RESURGENT
    Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
  • ESPRESSIVO
    With expression.
  • INEXPRESSIBLY
    In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
  • IMPRESS
    To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and
  • REIMPRESS
    To impress anew.
  • INTROPRESSION
    Pressure acting within.
  • OPPRESSION
    1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
  • INSUPPRESSIVE
    Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
  • COMPRESSIVE
    Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.

 

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