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Pressing vs Important - What's the difference?

pressing | important |

As adjectives the difference between pressing and important

is that pressing is needing urgent attention while important is 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)

    • important

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having relevant and crucial value.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
  • *1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
  • *:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l) * See also

    Antonyms

    * unimportant * negligible

    Related terms

    * import * importance

    Derived terms

    * importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIP

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