pressure

See also: pressuré

English

Etymology

From Latin pressūra.

Pronunciation

enPR: prĕshʹ-ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
- (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈpɹɛʃ.ə(ɹ)]
- (US) IPA^(key): [ˈpɹɛʃ.ɚ]
- Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: pres‧sure

Noun

pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)

A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 16, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  When the pressure of danger was not felt.
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Supplies:
  Hostile forces are putting pressure on our people. Take out their supply line to give our troops room to breathe.
Distress.
She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
- 1649, Eikon Basilike:
  My people's pressures are grievous.
- October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's
  In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
- 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:
  Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.
Urgency
the pressure of business
(obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
  All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.

Synonyms

(distress): affliction, grievance
(urgency): press

Derived terms

Translations

a pressing; force applied to a surface

Arabic: ضَغْط m (ḍaḡṭ)
Azerbaijani: təzyiq
Bashkir: баҫым (baśım)
Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
Bulgarian: наля́гане (bg) n (naljágane)
Catalan: pressió (ca) f
Finnish: paine (fi), puristus (fi)
French: pression (fr) f
Galician: presión (gl) f
Georgian: წნევა (c̣neva), წნეხა (c̣nexa)
German: Druck (de) m
Greek: πίεση (el) f (píesi)
Hebrew: לחץ \ לַחַץ (he) m (lákhats)
Hindi: दबाव (hi) m (dabāv), दाब (hi) f (dāb)
Hungarian: nyomás (hu)
Italian: pressione (it)
Japanese: 圧力 (ja) (あつりょく, atsuryoku)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: pesto (ku) f
Latin: pressūra f, pressiō f, nīsus / nīxus m
Latvian: spiediens m
Maori: pēhanga
Plautdietsch: Druck m
Polish: nacisk (pl) m, ucisk (pl) m, napór (pl) m
Portuguese: pressão (pt) f
Russian: давле́ние (ru) n (davlénije), нажи́м (ru) m (nažím)
Spanish: presión (es) f
Swedish: tryck (sv) n
Tagalog: bunto
Ukrainian: тиск m inan (tysk)

a contrasting force or impulse of any kind

Azerbaijani: təzyiq
Bashkir: баҫым (baśım)
Bulgarian: наля́гане (bg) n (naljágane)
Catalan: pressió (ca) f
Finnish: taakka (fi), paine (fi)
Galician: presión (gl) f
German: Druck (de) m
Italian: spinta (it) f
Japanese: 圧力 (ja) (あつりょく, atsuryoku)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: påtrykk n

Nynorsk: påtrykk n
Polish: presja (pl) f, przymus (pl) m
Portuguese: pressão (pt) f
Spanish: presión (es) f

mental strain

Armenian: ճնշում (hy) (čnšum)
Bashkir: баҫым (baśım)
Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
Bengali: তাল (bn) (tal)
Bulgarian: притесне́ние (bg) n (pritesnénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 壓力／压力 (zh) (yālì)
Czech: tlak (cs) m
Finnish: paine (fi), stressi (fi)
German: Druck (de) m
Greek: πίεση (el) f (píesi)
Hindi: तनाव (hi) m (tanāv)
Italian: pressione (it) f, impellenza (it) f, urgenza (it) f, tensione (it) f
Japanese: 重圧 (ja) (じゅうあつ, jūatsu), プレッシャー (ja) (puresshā)
Latin: nīsus / nīxus m
Macedonian: притисок m (pritisok), пресија f (presija)
Plautdietsch: Druck m
Polish: nacisk (pl) m
Portuguese: pressão (pt) f
Russian: давле́ние (ru) n (davlénije), напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije)
Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f
Spanish: presión (es) f
Swedish: press (sv) c
Telugu: ఒత్తిడి (te) (ottiḍi)
Turkish: baskı (tr)
Ukrainian: тиск m inan (tysk)

physics: amount of force divided by area

Albanian: presion (sq) m
Arabic: ضَغْط m (ḍaḡṭ)
Armenian: ճնշում (hy) (čnšum)
Azerbaijani: təzyiq
Bashkir: баҫым (baśım)
Basque: presio
Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk), ціск m (cisk)
Bengali: চাপ (bn) (cap)
Bulgarian: наля́гане (bg) n (naljágane)
Burmese: ဖိအား (my) (hpi.a:)
Catalan: pressió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 壓力／压力 (zh) (yālì)
Czech: tlak (cs) m
Danish: tryk n
Dutch: druk (nl) m
Esperanto: premo (eo)
Estonian: rõhk
Finnish: paine (fi)
French: pression (fr) f
Galician: presión (gl) f
Georgian: წნევა (c̣neva)
German: Druck (de) m
Greek: πίεση (el) f (píesi)
Greenlandic: naqitsineq
Hindi: दाब (hi) f (dāb), दबाव (hi) m (dabāv)
Hungarian: nyomás (hu), levegőnyomás
Indonesian: tekanan (id)
Italian: pressione (it) f
Japanese: 圧力 (ja) (あつりょく, atsuryoku)
Kazakh: қысым (qysym)
Khmer: សម្ពាធ (km) (sɑmpiət)
Korean: 압력(壓力) (ko) (amnyeok)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: pesto (ku) f
Kyrgyz: басым (ky) (basım)
Lao: ຄວາມກົດ (khuām kot)
Latvian: spiediens m
Lithuanian: slėgis m
Macedonian: притисок m (pritisok)
Malay: tekanan (ms)
Maori: pēhanga
Mongolian: даралт (mn) (daralt)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trykk (no) n

Nynorsk: trykk n
Persian: فشار (fa) (fešâr)
Polish: ciśnienie (pl) n
Portuguese: pressão (pt) f
Romanian: presiune (ro) f
Russian: давле́ние (ru) n (davlénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: прѝтисак m, (Croatia) тла̑к m

Roman: prìtisak (sh) m, (Croatia) tlȃk (sh) m
Slovak: tlak m
Slovene: pritisk (sl) f
Spanish: presión (es) f
Swedish: tryck (sv) n
Tagalog: diin (tl), bunto, presyon
Tajik: фишор (fišor)
Tatar: басым (tt) (basım)
Telugu: పీడనము (te) (pīḍanamu), ఒత్తిడి (te) (ottiḍi)
Thai: ความกด (kwaam-gòt)
Turkish: basınç (tr)
Turkmen: basyş (tk)
Ukrainian: тиск m inan (tysk)
Urdu: دباؤ (dabāo), فشار (fiśār)
Uyghur: بېسىم (bësim)
Uzbek: bosim (uz), tazyiq (uz)
Vietnamese: áp lực (vi)
Welsh: gwasgedd (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Dutch: druk (nl)
French: pression (fr) f
Indonesian: tekanan (id)
Interlingua: pression
Latvian: spiediens m
Portuguese: pressão (pt) f
Romanian: presiune (ro) f
Russian: давле́ние (ru) n (davlénije)
Swedish: tryck (sv)

Verb

pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)

(transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.

Translations

exert force or influence

Bulgarian: упражнявам натиск (upražnjavam natisk)
Catalan: pressionar (ca)
Finnish: painostaa (fi)
German: unter Druck setzen
Italian: fare pressione
Latin: opprimō
Spanish: presionar (es)

Anagrams

Preusser, perusers

French

Pronunciation

Homophones: pressurent, pressures

Verb

pressure

inflection of pressurer:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Participle

pressūre

vocative masculine singular of pressūrus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pressūra.

Noun

pressure oblique singular, f (oblique plural pressures, nominative singular pressure, nominative plural pressures)

pressure (action or result of pressing)

Descendants

→ English: pressure