Definition of Pressure

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Pressure

Electro-motive force.

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

Affliction; distress; grievance.

Urgency; as, the pressure of business.

Impression; stamp; character impressed.

The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.

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Pressure Quotations

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

Hermits have no peer pressure.
Steven Wright

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Noam Chomsky

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
John Belushi

Pressure Translations

pressure in Danish is tryk
pressure in French is instance, pression, instances
pressure in German is Druck, Dringlichkeit
pressure in Italian is pressione
pressure in Swedish is press, tryck

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