Pressureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: prĕshʹ-ə(r), IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
  • (英国発音) IPA: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ə(ɹ)]
  • (米国発音) IPA: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ɚ]
• 韻: -ɛʃə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: pres‧sure
• (Singapore) IPA: /ˈpɹɛʒə/

名詞

pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)

1. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

   Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.

2. 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 XVI, 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.

3. 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.

4. Urgency.

   the pressure of business

5. (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.

6. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.

同意語

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

派生語

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

   Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.

参考

• (units of pressure): pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in, lb/in), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)

参照

アナグラム

• Preusser, perusers