high pressuren.adj.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪ ˈprɛʃə/, U.S.

/ˌhaɪ ˈprɛʃər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., pressure n.¹

Etymology: < high adj. + pressure n.¹

A. n.

a. Physical pressure (pressure n.¹ 5b) that is higher than some standard or average pressure (often average atmospheric pressure), either artificially created or occurring naturally; an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1805 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 6 97 In every case care must be taken that..generally all the parts exposed to the expansive force of the steam, be of a strength proportioned to the high pressure to which they are to be exposed.

1827 New Monthly Mag. 21 255/2 By some experiments which have lately been made in France, it appears that several of the gasses, submitted to a high pressure, deviate sensibly from Mariotte's law, at the moment at which they approach liquefaction.

1874 Times 3 Aug. 5/2 The day's trials were concluded by taking the small air-holder containing air at high pressure..and firing at it.

1920 P. J. Fryer Insect Pests & Fungus Dis. Fruit & Hops xxvi. 443 The spray must be ‘fogged on’ as with arsenate of lead, a high pressure and fine nozzle being used and excess of spray avoided.

1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) xxiii. 428 Where oil-bearing beds also contain gas under high pressure, the oil may be forced out of a well and high into the air.

1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xiii. 182/1 The distribution of atherosclerosis is peculiarly consistent in that plaques occur in large arteries with a high pressure.

2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Mar. 13/4 How much damage is being done to water wells and underground aquifers from methane migration and the chemicals mixed with water and then injected into fracking wells under high pressure?

b. Meteorology. Atmospheric pressure that is higher than average; an instance or area of this. Cf. high n.² 10.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > movements and pressure conditions > [noun] > atmospheric pressure > (area of) high pressure

high pressure1826

high1878

1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 3 49 January was remarkable for high temperatures, high pressure, and little rain.

1834 W. H. B. Webster Jrnl. Voy. Southern Atlantic Ocean I. xv. 319 It appears then that the extra-tropical or middle zone is the zone of high pressure.

1897 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 25 2/1 These [highs] have had but little motion, the high pressures of the month being mostly stagnant phenomena in the middle Plateau Region.

1926 Times 29 Nov. 14/6 A ridge of high pressure extending south-south-westwards from an anticyclone over Southern Norway.

1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) i. ii. 11 Stand with your back to the wind; if you are in the Northern Hemisphere there will be high pressure to your right and low pressure to your left.

2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Feb. (Sports section) 12/1 A cold dome of high pressure will bring dry and sunny weather today as residents across the Northeast dig out from the blizzard.

2. A high degree of activity, exertion, urgency, or coercion. Frequently as a figurative usage of sense A. 1a.

ΚΠ

1825 N.Y. National Advocate 28 May 2/3 By this time her voice and gestures indicated that she was getting on the ‘high pressure’.

1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme p. xi A small freeholder, who was working under the high pressure of a stiff mortgage.

1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 183 What a safety-valve to the high pressure of a compulsory system is here!

1927 E. Wharton Twilight Sleep v. 59 The endless going out had..grown to be a soothing routine..after the high pressure of professional hours.

1958 Visct. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 232 The dockers, the railwaymen, the housewives—all had been working at high pressure.

2005 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 13 Mar. 39 There is high pressure to deliver results, particularly in the cash-conscious public sector.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Frequently hyphenated.

a. Originally: designating engines and boilers using steam at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure; designating such steam; (also) relating to such apparatus. In later use more widely: involving a high degree of physical pressure; relating to the use of such pressure.

ΚΠ

1810 Morning Post 22 Jan. 1/2 Steam engine—Wanted to rent or purchase, a portable Second-hand high pressure steam engine, from six to ten horse power.

1828 R. Trevithick Let. 14 Dec. in F. Trevithick Life Richard Trevithick (1872) II. xxvi. 317 The engine is high pressure and condensing.

1830 Museum Foreign Lit. May 474/2 While it [sc. a new coat] insinuates that we are the idol of a ball-room, it neutralizes the compliment by a high pressure power on the short ribs.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 401 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Bone-meal prepared by high-pressure steam.

1898 Engin. Mag. 15 102 The exhaust or low-pressure steam should be used, supplemented by high-pressure steam from the boilers.

1948 Chambers's Jrnl. July 388/1 The idea here is to break up the turf bank face by means of high-pressure jets.

1959 Pop. Sci. Apr. 210/1 Low pressure laminates, made with polyester resins instead of melamine, are not as durable as the high-pressure type.

1965 D. J. Boorstin Americans xiv. 100 The high-pressure engine, compared to the low-pressure engine, was far lighter in proportion to horsepower.

2007 Esquire Oct. 157/1 The former police sergeant retaliated, first with a high-pressure hose, then a sonic boom gun.

b. Meteorology. Characterized by or exhibiting atmospheric pressure that is higher than average. Cf. sense A. 1b.

ΚΠ

1871 Galaxy Dec. 776 If he is on the northwest side of a high-pressure area, he should find the wind blowing from some point in the quadrant between southeast and southwest.

1891 Daily News 9 Feb. 2/7 About the middle of last week a large high-pressure system spread over the United Kingdom from the southward.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 4/2 A high-pressure area lies over our northern regions, but a depression exists over the west of France.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 530/2 The other disasters were all associated with specific anticyclonic high-pressure weather systems and temperature inversions which acted as a lid over a source of pollution.

1990 Which? Apr. 221/3 Slow-moving high pressure areas and other natural weather conditions do (occasionally) conspire to give this country a good summer.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Sept. 96/3 A permanent high-pressure anticyclone over East Antarctica keeps the air over the continent dry and the snowfall meager.

2. Involving or characterized by a high degree of exertion, urgency, or coercion; spec. (with regard to selling) employing or involving highly persuasive techniques.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective]

sprindeOE

livelyOE

kaskc1300

wightc1300

courageousc1386

wighty14..

wieldya1413

ablec1440

tall of hand1530

sappy1558

energical1565

energetical1585

greenya1586

stout1600

strenuous1602

forceful?1624

actuous1626

vigorous1638

vivid1638

high-spirited1653

hearty1665

actuose1677

living1699

full-blooded1707

executive1708

rugged1731

sousing1735

energic1740

bouncing1743

two-fisted1774

energetic1782

zestful1797

rollicking1801

through-ganging1814

throughgoing1814

slashing1828

high-powered1829

high pressure1834

rip-roaring1834

red-blooded1836

ripsnorting1846

zesty1853

dynamic1856

throbbing1864

goey1875

torpedoic1893

kinky1903

zippy1903

go-at-it1904

punchy1907

up-and-at-'em1909

driving1916

vibranta1929

kinetic1931

zinging1931

high-octane1936

zingy1938

slam-bang1939

balls-to-the-wall1967

balls-out1968

ass-kicking1977

hi-octane1977

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > urgent

urgent1496

instant1585

pressing1609

rash1609

pressive1619

imperative1621

imperious1623

exigent1624

urging1647

emergent1706

high pressure1834

acute1846

1834 Periscope 1 Jan. 285/1 The monopolists of high-pressure education and academic honours come down to stifle this attempt to raise the general level of medical knowledge.

1872 F. W. Robinson Wrayford's Ward III. 207 A high-class, high-priced, high-pressure seminary.

1895 Daily News 31 Oct. 6/6 There was no high pressure work going on, and no high pressure oratory.

1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 389/2 Another stratagem successfully used by a great many salesmen, especially in so-called ‘high pressure’ selling, is to get the Prospect into an agreeable frame of mind just as soon as possible.

1931 N.Y. Herald Tribune 21 July 10/4 A high-pressure salesman drives up, says that he is selling oranges by the crate cheaper and better than you can buy..and offers you one from his pocket.

1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vii. 165 I get so confused by high-pressure salesmen.

1988 R. Basu Hours before Dawn ix. 84 Why did he think he could get along with the fast-talking, high-pressure life in New York?

2010 A. Hammond Alcohol in Home iv. 86 The job market is very high pressure and competitive.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high pressure
释义	high pressuren.adj. Brit. /ˌhʌɪ ˈprɛʃə/, U.S. /ˌhaɪ ˈprɛʃər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., pressure n.¹ Etymology: < high adj. + pressure n.¹ A. n. 1. a. Physical pressure (pressure n.¹ 5b) that is higher than some standard or average pressure (often average atmospheric pressure), either artificially created or occurring naturally; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1805 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 6 97 In every case care must be taken that..generally all the parts exposed to the expansive force of the steam, be of a strength proportioned to the high pressure to which they are to be exposed. 1827 New Monthly Mag. 21 255/2 By some experiments which have lately been made in France, it appears that several of the gasses, submitted to a high pressure, deviate sensibly from Mariotte's law, at the moment at which they approach liquefaction. 1874 Times 3 Aug. 5/2 The day's trials were concluded by taking the small air-holder containing air at high pressure..and firing at it. 1920 P. J. Fryer Insect Pests & Fungus Dis. Fruit & Hops xxvi. 443 The spray must be ‘fogged on’ as with arsenate of lead, a high pressure and fine nozzle being used and excess of spray avoided. 1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) xxiii. 428 Where oil-bearing beds also contain gas under high pressure, the oil may be forced out of a well and high into the air. 1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xiii. 182/1 The distribution of atherosclerosis is peculiarly consistent in that plaques occur in large arteries with a high pressure. 2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Mar. 13/4 How much damage is being done to water wells and underground aquifers from methane migration and the chemicals mixed with water and then injected into fracking wells under high pressure? b. Meteorology. Atmospheric pressure that is higher than average; an instance or area of this. Cf. high n.² 10. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > movements and pressure conditions > [noun] > atmospheric pressure > (area of) high pressure high pressure1826 high1878 1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 3 49 January was remarkable for high temperatures, high pressure, and little rain. 1834 W. H. B. Webster Jrnl. Voy. Southern Atlantic Ocean I. xv. 319 It appears then that the extra-tropical or middle zone is the zone of high pressure. 1897 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 25 2/1 These [highs] have had but little motion, the high pressures of the month being mostly stagnant phenomena in the middle Plateau Region. 1926 Times 29 Nov. 14/6 A ridge of high pressure extending south-south-westwards from an anticyclone over Southern Norway. 1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) i. ii. 11 Stand with your back to the wind; if you are in the Northern Hemisphere there will be high pressure to your right and low pressure to your left. 2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Feb. (Sports section) 12/1 A cold dome of high pressure will bring dry and sunny weather today as residents across the Northeast dig out from the blizzard. 2. A high degree of activity, exertion, urgency, or coercion. Frequently as a figurative usage of sense A. 1a. ΚΠ 1825 N.Y. National Advocate 28 May 2/3 By this time her voice and gestures indicated that she was getting on the ‘high pressure’. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme p. xi A small freeholder, who was working under the high pressure of a stiff mortgage. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 183 What a safety-valve to the high pressure of a compulsory system is here! 1927 E. Wharton Twilight Sleep v. 59 The endless going out had..grown to be a soothing routine..after the high pressure of professional hours. 1958 Visct. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 232 The dockers, the railwaymen, the housewives—all had been working at high pressure. 2005 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 13 Mar. 39 There is high pressure to deliver results, particularly in the cash-conscious public sector. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Frequently hyphenated. 1. a. Originally: designating engines and boilers using steam at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure; designating such steam; (also) relating to such apparatus. In later use more widely: involving a high degree of physical pressure; relating to the use of such pressure. ΚΠ 1810 Morning Post 22 Jan. 1/2 Steam engine—Wanted to rent or purchase, a portable Second-hand high pressure steam engine, from six to ten horse power. 1828 R. Trevithick Let. 14 Dec. in F. Trevithick Life Richard Trevithick (1872) II. xxvi. 317 The engine is high pressure and condensing. 1830 Museum Foreign Lit. May 474/2 While it [sc. a new coat] insinuates that we are the idol of a ball-room, it neutralizes the compliment by a high pressure power on the short ribs. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 401 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Bone-meal prepared by high-pressure steam. 1898 Engin. Mag. 15 102 The exhaust or low-pressure steam should be used, supplemented by high-pressure steam from the boilers. 1948 Chambers's Jrnl. July 388/1 The idea here is to break up the turf bank face by means of high-pressure jets. 1959 Pop. Sci. Apr. 210/1 Low pressure laminates, made with polyester resins instead of melamine, are not as durable as the high-pressure type. 1965 D. J. Boorstin Americans xiv. 100 The high-pressure engine, compared to the low-pressure engine, was far lighter in proportion to horsepower. 2007 Esquire Oct. 157/1 The former police sergeant retaliated, first with a high-pressure hose, then a sonic boom gun. b. Meteorology. Characterized by or exhibiting atmospheric pressure that is higher than average. Cf. sense A. 1b. ΚΠ 1871 Galaxy Dec. 776 If he is on the northwest side of a high-pressure area, he should find the wind blowing from some point in the quadrant between southeast and southwest. 1891 Daily News 9 Feb. 2/7 About the middle of last week a large high-pressure system spread over the United Kingdom from the southward. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 4/2 A high-pressure area lies over our northern regions, but a depression exists over the west of France. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 530/2 The other disasters were all associated with specific anticyclonic high-pressure weather systems and temperature inversions which acted as a lid over a source of pollution. 1990 Which? Apr. 221/3 Slow-moving high pressure areas and other natural weather conditions do (occasionally) conspire to give this country a good summer. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Sept. 96/3 A permanent high-pressure anticyclone over East Antarctica keeps the air over the continent dry and the snowfall meager. 2. Involving or characterized by a high degree of exertion, urgency, or coercion; spec. (with regard to selling) employing or involving highly persuasive techniques. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] sprindeOE livelyOE kaskc1300 wightc1300 courageousc1386 wighty14.. wieldya1413 ablec1440 tall of hand1530 sappy1558 energical1565 energetical1585 greenya1586 stout1600 strenuous1602 forceful?1624 actuous1626 vigorous1638 vivid1638 high-spirited1653 hearty1665 actuose1677 living1699 full-blooded1707 executive1708 rugged1731 sousing1735 energic1740 bouncing1743 two-fisted1774 energetic1782 zestful1797 rollicking1801 through-ganging1814 throughgoing1814 slashing1828 high-powered1829 high pressure1834 rip-roaring1834 red-blooded1836 ripsnorting1846 zesty1853 dynamic1856 throbbing1864 goey1875 torpedoic1893 kinky1903 zippy1903 go-at-it1904 punchy1907 up-and-at-'em1909 driving1916 vibranta1929 kinetic1931 zinging1931 high-octane1936 zingy1938 slam-bang1939 balls-to-the-wall1967 balls-out1968 ass-kicking1977 hi-octane1977 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > urgent urgent1496 instant1585 pressing1609 rash1609 pressive1619 imperative1621 imperious1623 exigent1624 urging1647 emergent1706 high pressure1834 acute1846 1834 Periscope 1 Jan. 285/1 The monopolists of high-pressure education and academic honours come down to stifle this attempt to raise the general level of medical knowledge. 1872 F. W. Robinson Wrayford's Ward III. 207 A high-class, high-priced, high-pressure seminary. 1895 Daily News 31 Oct. 6/6 There was no high pressure work going on, and no high pressure oratory. 1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 389/2 Another stratagem successfully used by a great many salesmen, especially in so-called ‘high pressure’ selling, is to get the Prospect into an agreeable frame of mind just as soon as possible. 1931 N.Y. Herald Tribune 21 July 10/4 A high-pressure salesman drives up, says that he is selling oranges by the crate cheaper and better than you can buy..and offers you one from his pocket. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vii. 165 I get so confused by high-pressure salesmen. 1988 R. Basu Hours before Dawn ix. 84 Why did he think he could get along with the fast-talking, high-pressure life in New York? 2010 A. Hammond Alcohol in Home iv. 86 The job market is very high pressure and competitive. 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