HIGH-PRESSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-pressure mean? 

• HIGH-PRESSURE (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-PRESSURE has 1 sense:

1. aggressively and persistently persuasive

  Familiarity information: HIGH-PRESSURE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-PRESSURE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aggressively and persistently persuasive

Synonyms:

hard-hitting; high-pressure

Context example:

a high-pressure salesman

Similar:

aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)

 Context examples 

Meteorologically, slow-moving high-pressure systems accumulate pollutants and heat during the summer months.

(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Neptune's dark vortices are high-pressure systems and are usually accompanied by bright "companion clouds," which are also now visible on the distant planet.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

Atmospheric blocking events are middle-latitude, high-pressure systems that stay in place for days or even weeks.

(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)

Titan's icy crust sits atop a deep ocean of liquid water that probably acts much like Earth's upper mantle — the layer of hot, high-pressure rock below the crust that can slowly flow and deform over time.

(Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks, NASA)

If the high-pressure system becomes bigger, you are going to get bigger heat waves that affect more people, and you are likely going to get stronger heat waves.

(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)

Climate change will increase the size of stalled high-pressure weather systems called blocking events, which have already produced some of the 21st century's deadliest heat waves, according to a study by Rice University researchers.

(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)