pressing

  1. Adjective.  Needing urgent attention.
  2. Adjective.  Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
  3. Noun.  The application of pressure by a press or other means.
  4. Noun.  A metal or plastic part made with a press.
  5. Noun.  The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
  6. Noun.  A momento 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.
  7. Noun.  The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
  8. Noun.  A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
  9. Noun.  Urgent insistence.
  10. Verb.  (present participle of, press) .

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