What's the difference between pressing and squashing?
Pressing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Press
(a.) Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.
Example Sentences:
(1) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(4) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(5) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(6) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(7) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(8) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
(9) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(10) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(11) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
(12) Experimental animals pressed the S+ bar at a significantly higher rate than the S- bar.
(13) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(14) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(15) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
(16) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(17) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(18) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(19) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
(20) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
Squashing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squash
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(3) The long-term culture corresponded to mouse MXT and MCF-7 cell lines whereas the primary culture corresponded to primitive breast cancers squashed onto histologic slides and maintained in cultures for between 12 and 48 h. Cell proliferation was evaluated by means of digital cell image analysis of Feulgen-stained nuclei.
(4) Alignment of these sequences with that of squash defines domains of nitrate reductase that appear to bind its 3 prosthetic groups (molybdopterin, heme-iron, and FAD).
(5) In four of the above cases, Ki-67 staining was performed on air-dried squash preparations with excellent visualization of immunoreactive nuclei.
(6) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
(7) We compared cytomorphonuclear parameters--related to DNA histogram and chromatin distribution--on MXT mouse mammary tumor and murine normal cells from fresh squash smears or from deparaffinized tissue smears fixed in several fluids.
(8) Six amino acid sequences for trypsin inhibitors isolated from squash, summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds were determined.
(9) Squash was associated with significant changes in heart rate and circulating concentrations of catecholamines, lactate, free fatty acids, and potassium.
(10) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
(11) A statistical collection of squash injuries in 8000 players from 30 squash centers in the Federal Republic of Germany over a 12 months period is presented and evaluated.
(12) Many inhibitors of trypsin and human beta-factor XIIa have been isolated from squash and related seeds and sequenced (Wieczorek et al., Biochem.
(13) Large numbers of whole (infected) sandflies can be quickly squashed on to nylon hybridization filters and (following standard procedures) the filter-bound DNA can be hybridized sequentially to cloned, multicopy genomic sequences that are specific for species of Leishmania (kinetoplast DNA) or for the sandfly (ribosomal (r) DNA).
(14) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
(15) The renowned US architect Frank Gehry recently completed the Dr Chau Chak Wing building for the University of Technology in Sydney, described by the Australian governor general, Sir Peter Cosgrove, as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag I’ve ever seen”.
(16) Marrow sections and squash preparations were made at intervals during 120 hr.
(17) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
(18) It’s run like a squash club committee and that needs to stop.
(19) Sex chromatin studies on squash preparations of a well differentiated transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder without evidence of invasion from a female aged 63 revealed a single body in some regions, but two to four bodies in others.
(20) In the UK, the first plant to store electricity by squashing air into a liquid is due to open in March, while the first steps have been taken towards a virtual power station comprised of a network of home batteries.