pressing
adjetivosubstantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- //ˈpɹɛsɪŋ//
Needing urgent attention.
adjetivo
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Needing urgent attention.
“I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
And now the world will have to pause a little, and take up that other side of the problem, and in right earnest strive for some solution of that. For it has become pressing.
The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made.
Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption.
- 2
Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
He was pressing and persuasive.
substantivo
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The application of pressure by a press or other means.
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A metal or plastic part made with a press.
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The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
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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.
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The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
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A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
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Urgent insistence.
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A tactic of defending players moving forward towards the ball, rather than remaining in position near their goal.
His version of pressing—dynamic and aggressive—is now the pre-eminent tactical mode, prompting evolution even in Pep Guardiola, whose press-and-possess football at Barcelona had laid the groundwork for this development.
verbo
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Também uma forma de presspresent participle and gerund of press
Formas
- plural
- pressings
- comparativo
- more pressing
- superlativo
- most pressing