- Isolated community or district - Take back - Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an
opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river
channel, or across a river bar. - An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands,
caused by an obstruction. - Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by
the paddle wheels of a steamer.
- Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding
that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of
steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc. - Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business
or social life.