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thrust /ˈθrʌst/
插,戳,刺,猛推,口頭攻擊,推力(vt.)插入,猛推,刺,戳,突然提出,強加
Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.]
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 To thrust 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 To thrust one's self 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.”
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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thrust
n 1: the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the
walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"
[syn: push]
2: a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed
instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him"
[syn: stab, knife thrust]
3: the act of applying force to propel something; "after
reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn:
drive, driving force]
4: verbal criticism; "he enlivened his editorials with barbed
thrusts at politicians"
5: a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with
a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with
his fist" [syn: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting]
v 1: push forcefully; "He thrust his chin forward"
2: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust
the letter into his hand" [syn: stuff, shove, squeeze]
3: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, hurtle]
4: impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably;
"She forced her diet fads on him" [syn: force]
5: penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument [syn: pierce]
6: geology: thrust (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
7: push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided
head-on thrust up into the air" [syn: push up]
8: place or put with great energy; "She threw the blanket
around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the
beggar" [syn: throw]