Difference between Pressing and Urgent

What is the difference between Pressing and Urgent?

Pressing as an adjective is needing urgent attention. while Urgent as an adjective is requiring immediate attention.

Pressing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Needing urgent attention. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The application of pressure by a press or other means. A metal or plastic part made with a press. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by removing creases with a press or an iron. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time. Urgent insistence.

Example sentence: There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

Urgent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Requiring immediate attention.

Example sentence: We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

We hope you now know whether to use Pressing or Urgent in your sentence.

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