Pressure

Definition

pressure /'preʃǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] (က) ဖိအား။ တြန္းအား။ the pressure of the crowd against the barriers ❍ The pressure of the water caused the dam to burst. (ခ) ဖိအား ပမာဏ။ exert/maintain/relieve pressure on sth ❍ pump up/reduce the tyre pressure ❍ apply gentle pressure to stop the flow of blood ❍ water passing through the pipes at high pressure ❍ a pressure chamber ❍ a pressure gauge (ie an instrument for measuring the pressure of liquid, gas, air, etc). See also BLOOD PRESSURE ၂။ [U] ေလထုဖိအား။ A band of high/low pressure is moving across the country. See also ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ၃။ [U, C] (~ of sth ) ; ~ (to do sth) (အလုပ္၊ လူေနမႈသဘာဝအရ) ေသာက၊ အခက္အခဲ ဖိစီးမႈဒဏ္။ She has very little free time because of pressure of work. ❍ The pressures of city life forced him to move to the country. v = PRESSURIZE ၁ ❏ bring pressure to bear on sb (to do sth) [ IDM ] ဩဇာအရိွန္အဝါသံုး၍ ဖိခိုင္းသည္။ The council brought pressure to bear on the landlord to improve his property. ❏ pressure-cooker n ေလလံုေပါင္းအိုး။ ❍ PAN 1 ❏ pressure group n [CGp] (အစိုးရ၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း တစ္ရပ္ကို) ၎တို႔ဦးတည္သည့္ ကိစၥတစ္ရပ္အတြက္ နည္းအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးျဖင့္ အေရးဆိုေသာအဖြဲ႕။ an environmental pressure group trying to stop the building of a new motorway. ❏ put pressure on sb (to do sth) [ IDM ] အပူတျပင္း လုပ္ခိုင္းသည္။ ဖိအားေပးသည္။ put pressure on sb to make a decision ❍ The birth of twins put pressure on them to find a bigger house. ❏ under pressure [ IDM ] ၁။ ဘူးတြင္းသြတ္သြင္း ဖိထည့္ထားေသာ (အရည္၊ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕)။ The gas is stored under pressure in the tank. ❍ The beer comes out of the barrel under pressure. ၂။ ဖုတ္ပူမီးတိုက္ လုပ္ရေသာ၊ လုပ္ေစေသာ။ work under pressure ❍ put sb/come under pressure (to do sth). ၃။ ေသာကဖိစီးမႈ။ She is constantly under pressure and it is affecting her health.

Examples

1. [pressure for] : Pressure for political change increased in the 1990s.
2. [pressure on someone (to do something)] : There is now greater pressure on the White House to take action.
3. [under pressure to do something] : The council is still under pressure to reduce spending.
4. [under pressure from someone] : Under pressure from France
5. Germany has finally dropped its proposals.
6. [pressure on someone (to do something)] : He did not put any pressure on her to take the job.
7. [bring pressure to bear on someone (to do something)] : Officials were bringing pressure to bear on the government to stop the war.
8. [] : He would not give in to pressure from his family to come home.
9. [pressure on] : The pressure on prison officers is well documented.
10. [under pressure] : With greatly increased workloads
11. everyone is under pressure now.
12. [stand the pressure] : If you can’t stand the pressure
13. you should resign.
14. The pressures of modern life
15. She became conscious of the pressure of his hand on her shoulder.
16. Atmospheric/air/water pressure
17. [pressure] : An area of high pressure over the Atlantic
18. The influence in house-building reflects demographic pressures in this part of the country.
19. Inflationary pressures that may force interest rates to rise