Pressing vs. Urgent

Pressingadjective

Needing urgent attention.

Urgentadjective

Requiring immediate attention.

‘An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.’;

Pressingadjective

Insistent, earnest, or persistent.

Urgentadjective

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

‘Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.’; ‘The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.’;

Pressingnoun

The application of pressure by a press or other means.

Urgentadjective

compelling immediate action;

‘too pressing to permit of longer delay’; ‘the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'’; ‘bridges in urgent need of repair’;

Pressingnoun

A metal or plastic part made with a press.

Pressingnoun

The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.

Pressingnoun

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.

Pressingnoun

The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.

Pressingnoun

A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.

Pressingnoun

Urgent insistence.

Pressingadjective

Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.

Pressingnoun

the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure;

‘he gave the button a press’; ‘he used pressure to stop the bleeding’; ‘at the pressing of a button’;

Pressingnoun

a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press

Pressingadjective

compelling immediate action;

‘too pressing to permit of longer delay’; ‘the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'’; ‘bridges in urgent need of repair’;