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Pressing vs Crucial - What's the difference?

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Pressing is a synonym of crucial.


As adjectives the difference between pressing and crucial

is that pressing is needing urgent attention while crucial is being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.

As a noun pressing

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

As a verb pressing

is .

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)

    • crucial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-07, author= Nicole Vulser
    • , volume=190, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies , passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial , but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
  • (label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
  • Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

    • Derived terms

    * crucial experiment

    Related terms

    * cross * crux

    References

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