thrust
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse þrysta, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
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Pronunciation
Noun
thrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)
- (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
- Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
- A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
- The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
- The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
- Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
- (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
- Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.
Synonyms
- (push, stab, or lunge forward): break, dart, grab
- (force generated by propulsion): lift, push
- (primary effort or goal): focus, gist, point
Translations
an attack with a sword
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a lunge forward
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force due to propulsion
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(figurative) primary effort
Verb
thrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)
- (intransitive) To make advance with force.
- We thrust at the enemy with our forces.
- (transitive) To force something upon someone.
- I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.
- (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
- He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
- to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
- (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And thrust between my father and the god.
- (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
Synonyms
- (advance with force): attack, charge, rush
- (force upon someone): compel, charge, force
- (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully): dart, reach, stab
Translations
make an advance with force
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force something upon someone
push or drive something with force
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push out or extend rapidly or powerfully
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