Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To push or drive quickly and forcefully: synonym: push.
- intransitive verb To cause to project or extend.
- intransitive verb To force into a specified condition or situation.
- intransitive verb To force or impose on an unwilling or improper recipient.
- intransitive verb Archaic To stab; pierce.
- intransitive verb To shove something into or at something else.
- intransitive verb To grow or extend upwards.
- intransitive verb To force one's way; press forward.
- noun A forceful shove or push.
- noun A lunge or stab.
- noun A driving force or pressure.
- noun The forward-directed force developed in a jet or rocket engine as a reaction to the high-velocity rearward ejection of exhaust gases.
- noun Outward or lateral stress in a structure, as that exerted by an arch or vault.
- noun The essential meaning; the point.
- noun The central purpose or objective.
- noun A forceful movement, especially an advance or attack by an armed force.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
thirst . - noun In geology, a compressive strain in the crust of the earth, which, in its most characteristic development, produces reversed or thrust faults.
- noun In marine engineering, the force exerted endwise on a propeller shaft to drive a vessel ahead.
- noun Abbreviation of thrust-bearing, thrust-block, or thrust-box.
- noun See the extract.
- noun See
thurse and thrush. - To push forcibly; shove; force: as, to
thrust a hand into one's pocket, or one's feet into slippers; to thrust a stick into the sand: usually followed by from, in, off, away, or other adverb or preposition. - Figuratively, to drive; force; compel.
- To press; pack; jam.
- To stab; pierce.
- To protrude; cause to project.
- To push forward; advance, in space or time.
- To stick out; protrude.
- To force out.
- Synonyms Thrust is stronger. more energetic, than push or drive, and represents a more dignified act than shove. No other distinction really exists among these words.
- To push or drive with or as with a pointed weapon.
- To push one's self; force a way or passage.
- To crowd, or assemble in crowds; press in; throng.
- To rush; make a dash.
- noun A violent push or drive, as with a pointed weapon pushed in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with an instrument; a stab; as a term of fence, in general, any attack by a fencer with a point.
- noun Attack; assault.
- noun In mech., the stress which acts between two contiguous bodies, or parts of a body, when each pushes the other from itself.
- noun In coal-mining, a crushing of the pillars caused by excess of weight of the superincumbent rocks, the floor being harder than the roof.
- noun The white whey which is the last to leave the curd under pressure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Thrist.
- intransitive verb To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon.
- intransitive verb To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- intransitive verb To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
- intransitive verb [Obs.] to rush upon.
- transitive verb To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My Ballpark frank plumps when it cooks, Hoey. *wink, wink, hip thrust, hip thrust*
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Jennifer Merin: "Air Guitar Nation's main thrust is fun, and it's a blast and a half of that."
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His main thrust is that the economy and business are the most important aspects of a society.
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His main thrust is that the economy and business are the most important aspects of a society.
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Unless the main thrust is satire (which it doesn't appear to be) then I'd choose something memorable but abstract - the old latin dictionary is useful for this sort of thing and I found 'Aequus', meaning level, fair & just?
Idle Dream No. 94 Newmania 2007
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His main thrust is that the economy and business are the most important aspects of a society.
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Its main thrust is that life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
If Pigs Could Swim 2005
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Its main thrust is that life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
If Pigs Could Swim 2005
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Its main thrust is that life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
If Pigs Could Swim 2005
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Of course the main thrust is to improve our social programmes -- to bring them up-to-date, to give people today's skills for today's jobs, to enable them to make the transition from dependence to independence.
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