thrust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English þrusten, from Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
Inflected forms:
form: thrusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thrusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thrusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thrust
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thrust
pos: verb
tags: past
form: thrusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thrusted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
gloss: A push, stab, or lunge forward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
Tilehurst […] began to pedal unhurryingly towards the anticipated lane, with the easy thrust of a man who has just made a substantial meal and knows that he has plenty of time and to spare for his appointment.
gloss: The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
gloss: The primary effort; the goal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.
“The main thrust of it was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit it not delivering, our economy is in a weak position,” said the source.
As is normal for biopics, the movie takes liberties with the historical record, but the thrust of the narrative is not disputed.
gloss: To make advance with force.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We thrust at the enemy with our forces.
gloss: To force something upon someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.
It is my earnest hope that the bitter lessons China has learned may prove instructive to countries and governments, and especially those in Asia which now face the same threat of Communism. Often it is not easy for most people to realize the presence of this threat in their midst, and by the time they do, it may already be too late to prevent its thrusting them behind the Iron Curtain at least for a time.
gloss: To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.
Towers thrusting skyward.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
gloss: To push or drive with force; to shove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument
Into a Dungeon thruſt, to work with Slaves?
gloss: To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And thrust between my father and the god.
gloss: To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
pos: verb
Derived words: abdominal-thrust maneuver
antithrust
backthrust
bethrust
blind thrust fault
counterthrust
cut and thrust
cut-and-thrust
fold and thrust belt
hip thrust
hip thrust pad
home thrust
megathrust
modified chest thrust
nonthrust
pelvic thrust
reverse thrust
specific thrust
squat thrust
stop thrust
thrust bucket
thrust diamond
thrust fault
thrustful
thrustless
thrustlike
thrust load
thrustmeter
thrust reverser
thrust sheet
thrust stage
thrust vectoring
time thrust
tongue thrust
unthrust
outthrust
overthrust
upthrust
misthrust
thrustable
thruster
thrustingly
thrust one's nose in
thrustor
thrust out
underthrust
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