ALL meanings of pressing
press·ing
P p - adjective pressing urgent 1
- noun pressing act of pressing 1
- noun pressing CD, record: edition 1
- abbreviation PRESSING persistent 1
- adjective pressing urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need. 1
- noun pressing impressment into service, especially naval or military service. 1
- verb with object pressing to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress. 1
- verb with object pressing to make use of in a manner different from that intended or desired: French taxis were pressed into service as troop transports. 1
- verb without object pressing to manufacture (phonograph records, videodiscs, or the like), especially by stamping from a mold or matrix. 1
- verb without object pressing to exert weight, force, or pressure. 1
- verb without object pressing Weightlifting. to raise or lift, especially a specified amount of weight, in a press. 1
- verb without object pressing to iron clothing, curtains, etc. 1
- verb without object pressing to bear heavily, as upon the mind. 1
- verb without object pressing (of athletes and competitors) to perform tensely or overanxiously, as when one feels pressured or is determined to break out of a slump; strain because of frustration: For days he hasn't seemed able to buy a hit, and he's been pressing. 1
- verb without object pressing to compel haste: Time presses. 1
- verb without object pressing to demand immediate attention. 1
- verb without object pressing to use urgent entreaty: to press for an answer. 1
- verb without object pressing to push forward or advance with force, eagerness, or haste: The army pressed to reach the river by dawn. 1
- verb without object pressing to crowd or throng. 1
- verb without object pressing Basketball. to employ a press. 1
- idioms pressing go to press, to begin being printed: The last edition has gone to press. 1
- idioms pressing press the flesh, Informal. flesh (def 24). 1
- adjective pressing A pressing problem, need, or issue has to be dealt with immediately. 0
- adjective pressing demanding immediate attention 0
- adjective pressing persistent or importunate 0
- noun pressing a large specified number of gramophone records produced at one time from a master record 0
- noun pressing a component formed in a press 0
- noun pressing the tactic of trying to stay very close to the opposition when they are in possession of the ball 0
- adjective pressing calling for immediate attention; urgent 0
- adjective pressing persistent in request or demand; insistent 0
- noun pressing the process or an instance of stamping, squeezing, etc. with a press 0
- noun pressing the result of this, often a series or one of a series of identical articles 0