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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressure: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. pressure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. pressure: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. pressure: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. PRESSURE, Pressure, pressure: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. pressure: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Pressure: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. pressure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. pressure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. pressure: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. pressure: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. pressure (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. pressure: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. pressure: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. Pressure (Billy Joel song), Pressure (SpongeBob Episode), Pressure (SpongeBob SquarePants), Pressure (SpongeBob SquarePants Episode), Pressure (musician), Pressure (physics), Pressure (single by Belly), Pressure (song), Pressure, The Pressure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Pressure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. pressure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. pressure: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. pressure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. pressure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. Pressure: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
  22. pressure: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. pressure: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. pressure: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. pressure: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. pressure: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  27. pressure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pressure: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  2. Pressure (physics), pressure: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  3. pressure: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pressure (physics), pressure: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressure: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Pressure: Merck Manuals [home, info]
  3. pressure: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  4. Pressure (physics), pressure: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pressure: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
  2. Pressure: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]
  3. pressure: General Chemistry Online [home, info]
  4. pressure: UNCChem Glossary [home, info]
  5. PRESSURE: Weather Glossary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pressure: Backgammon [home, info]
  2. Pressure: Bicycle Glossary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pressure: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. PRESSURE: Glossary of Composite Terms [home, info]
  3. pressure: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  4. Pressure: Explosives [home, info]
  5. Pressure: Oil Analysis [home, info]
  6. Pressure: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]
  7. pressure: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
  8. Pressure: Dictionary for Avionics [home, info]
  9. PRESSURE: Power Engineering [home, info]
  10. pressure: Glossary of Water Environment Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (pressure)

noun:  a force that compels ("The public brought pressure to bear on the government")
noun:  the somatic sensation of pressure ("The sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal")
noun:  the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) ("The compressed gas exerts an increased pressure")
noun:  an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
noun:  the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure ("He used pressure to stop the bleeding")
noun:  the state of urgently demanding notice or attention
verb:  exert pressure on someone through threats
verb:  to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

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Words similar to pressure:   blackjack, blackmail, coerce, force, imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press, pressing, pressured, pressureless, pressuring, force per unit area, persuasion, pressure sensation, stress, more...


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