high-pressure : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: high-pressure	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for high-pressure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
high-pressure adj aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman" Synonym(s): hard-hitting, high-pressure
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
High-pressure \High"-pres`sure\ (?; 135), a. 1. Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc. 2. Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life. {High-pressure engine}, an engine in which steam at high pressure is used. It may be either a condensing or a noncondensing engine. Formerly the term was used only of the latter. See {Steam engine}.