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What's The Definition Of Thrust?
[n] a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
[n] the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [n] a thrusting blow with a knife [n] verbal criticism; "he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians" [n] the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines" [v] impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" [v] penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument [v] push forcefully; "He thrust his chin forward" [v] make a thrusting forward movement [v] press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [v] push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air" Synonyms | Synonyms for Thrust: drive | driving force | force | hurl | hurtle | jab | jabbing | knife thrust | lunge | pierce | poke | poking | push | push up | shove | squeeze | stab | stuff | thrusting Related Terms | Find terms related to Thrust: See Also | actuation | barge | blow | boost | center punch | compel | criticism | dart | dig | drive | empale | firewall | force | force | gesture | gore | horn | impale | impetus | impulse | impulsion | jab | jut | jut out | lance | move | obligate | oblige | peg | penetrate | perforate | poke | pound | prod | project | propulsion | protrude | punch | push | push forward | ram | ram down | shoulder | spike | stab | stick | stick | stick out | sting | thrust ahead | transfix | tusk | unfavorable judgment Thrust In Webster's Dictionary \Thrust\, n. & v.
Thrist. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. {To thrust away} or {from}, to push away; to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in. {To thrust off}, to push away. {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} or {into}, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.'' --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. \Thrust\, v. i. 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. 2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god. --Dryden. 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. ``Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.'' --Chapman. {To thrust to}, to rush upon. [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. --Spenser. \Thrust\, n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More. 3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. 4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. {Thrust bearing} (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. {Thrust plane} (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack. Usage: {Thrust}, {Push}, {Shove}. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. |
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