Pressure vs Command - What's the difference?
pressure | command |
A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
Distress.
* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
* (rfdate) (Atterbury)
Urgency
(obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
An order to do something.
The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
(military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
* 1899 ,
Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
(computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
(baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
* Macaulay
* Shakespeare
To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
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to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
To hold, to control the use of.
* Motley
* Shakespeare
* Addison
(archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
* Milton
(obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.
* Bible, Leviticus xxv. 21
As verbs the difference between pressure and command
is that pressure is while command is to order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.As an adjective pressure
is squeezed.As a noun command is
an order to do something.pressure
English
Noun
- Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
- the pressure''' of poverty; the '''pressure''' of taxes; the '''pressure''' of motives on the mind; the ' pressure of civilization.
- Where the pressure of danger was not felt.
- She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
- My people's pressures are grievous.
- In the midst of his great troubles and pressures .
- the pressure of business
- All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
Synonyms
* (distress) affliction, grievance * (urgency)Derived terms
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* (units of pressure) pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)Verb
(pressur)- Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
Anagrams
* ----command
English
Noun
(en noun)- I was given a command to cease shooting.
- to have command of an army
- he had command of the situation
- England has long held command of the sea
- a good command of language
- General Smith was placed in command .
- Command cannot be otherwise than savage, for it implies an appeal to force, should force be needful.'' (''H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 180)
- I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river.
- He's got good command tonight.
Verb
(en verb)- The soldier was commanded to cease firing.
- The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.
- We are commanded' to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are ' commanded to forgive our friends.
- Go to your mistress: / Say, I command her come to me.
- to command an army or a ship
- Monmouth commanded the English auxiliaries.
- Such aid as I can spare you shall command .
- he commanded silence
- If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. (Mat. IV. 3.)
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
- Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.)
- A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.
- Justice commands the respect and affections of the people.
- The best goods command the best price.
- This job commands a salary of £30,000.
- The fort commanded the bay.
- bridges commanded by a fortified house
- Up to the eastern tower, / Whose height commands as subject all the vale.
- One side commands a view of the finest garden.
- Far and wide his eye commands .
- I will command my blessing upon you.