Usually means: Applying pressure to flatten, extract.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pressing: Merriam-Webster
  3. pressing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pressing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pressing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pressing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pressing, pressing: Wordnik
  8. pressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pressing: Wiktionary
  10. pressing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pressing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pressing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pressing, pressing: Dictionary.com
  14. pressing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pressing (execution), Pressing (metalworking), Pressing (wine), Pressing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pressing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pressing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pressing: Rhymezone
  19. Pressing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pressing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pressing: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pressing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. pressing: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressing: Medical dictionary

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  1. pressing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pressing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pressing: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See press as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Needing urgent attention.
adjective:  Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
noun:  The application of pressure by a press or other means.
noun:  A metal or plastic part made with a press.
noun:  The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
noun:  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.
noun:  The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
noun:  A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
noun:  Urgent insistence.

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