pressingとは意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058, chapter 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, chapter 2, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729:

     You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.

   • 1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"

     He was pressing and persuasive.

引用

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pressing.

派生語

• pressingly
• pressingness

名詞

pressing (複数形 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.

動詞

pressing

1. present participle of press

アナグラム

• Persings, Spigners, spersing, springes