Pressure vs Moment - What's the difference?
pressure | moment | Related terms |
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.
A brief, unspecified amount of time.
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, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
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, title= The smallest portion of time; an instant.
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, title= Weight or importance.
* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), , 3,7,67:
* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Second Stain) , (Norton 2005, p.1192)
The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. Also called moment of force.
(label) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
(label) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
(label) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
(label) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
Pressure is a related term of moment.
As a verb pressure
is .As an adjective pressure
is squeezed.As a noun moment is
moment or moment can be momentum.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
* ----moment
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
- In deep designs, in matter of great moment , / No less importing than our general good.
- The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment .
