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presh

/pɹɛʃ/

presh is the clipping of pressure.

presh is the clipping of precious.

Meaning of pressure

Noun

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. The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
  3. An amount of pressure.
    • the throttle valve should be partially closed which will allow a pressure of steam to accumulate and so determine at once the true water-level1880, William Miller Barr, Handbook for Steam Engineers and Owners: Being a Practical Guide to the Selection and Care of Steam Machinery, J.H. Kerrick & Company, page 119
  4. 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.
  5. Distress.
    • She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
  6. Urgency.
    • the pressure of business
    Synonyms:
    press

See all 8 meanings of pressure

Meaning of precious

Adjective

precious (comparative more precious, superlative most precious)

  1. Of high value or worth.
    • The crown had many precious gemstones. This building work needs site access, and tell the city council that I don't care about a few lorry tyre ruts across their precious grass verge.
  2. Regarded with love or tenderness.
    • The way my partner looks at me is just so precious.
  3. (derogatory) Treated with too much reverence.
    • He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
  4. (ironic) Excessively complicated.
  5. (informal) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
    • Writers are often very precious about their work.
  6. (derogatory, informal) Blasted; damned.
    • It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

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Forms of presh

comparativemore presh
superlativemost presh

Words that rhyme with presh

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Questions about presh

What is presh the clipping of?
Presh is the clipping of pressure.
How do you pronounce presh?
Presh is pronounced /pɹɛʃ/.

Words near presh in the dictionary

  1. presewn
  2. presews
  3. presex
  4. presexual
  5. presexuality
  6. presh
  7. preshadow
  8. preshadowed
  9. preshadowing
  10. preshadows
  11. preshape

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Adapted from Wiktionary: presh (page history and authors); pressure (page history and authors); precious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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