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Pressing vs Impending - What's the difference?

pressing | impending |

As adjectives the difference between pressing and impending

is that pressing is needing urgent attention while impending is approaching; drawing near; about to happen.

As verbs the difference between pressing and impending

is that pressing is while impending is .

As a noun pressing

is the application of pressure by a press or other means.

pressing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Needing urgent attention.
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
  • 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.
  • * 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge , ch. 75,
  • “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
  • Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
  • * 1891 , , The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. 2,
  • You are very pressing , Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
  • * 1908 , , "The Duel,"
  • He was pressing and persuasive.

    Derived terms

    * pressingly * pressingness

    Quotations

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The application of pressure by a press or other means.
  • A metal or plastic part made with a press.
  • The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
  • 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.
  • The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
  • A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
  • Urgent insistence.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • impending

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
  • I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

    Synonyms

    * imminent

    Verb

    (head)
  • The hurricane is impending .