thrust
Cross references:
1. push
1. thrust \'thr*st\ vb or thrust; or thrust.ing [ME thrusten, thristen,
fr. ON thry-sta] 1: to push or drive with force : SHOVE 2: to cause to
enter or pierce something by or as if by pushing 3: EXTEND, SPREAD 4:
STAB, PIERCE 5: INTERJECT, INTERPOLATE 6: to press, force, or impose the
acceptance of upon someone 1a: to force an entrance or passage 1b: to
push forward : press onward 1d: to push upward : PROJECT 2: to make a
thrust, stab, or lunge with or as if with a pointed weapon - thrust.er n
2. thrust n 1a: a push or lunge with a pointed weapon 1b1: a verbal attack
1b2: a military assault 2a: a strong continued pressure 2b: the sideways
force or pressure of one part of a structure against anoth er part (as of
an arch against an abutment) 2c1: the force exerted endwise through a
propeller shaft to give forward mo tion 2c2: the forward directed reaction
force produced by a high-speed jet of fl uid discharged rearwards from a
nozzle (as in a jet airplane or a rocket) 2d: a nearly horizontal
geological fault 3a: a forward or upward push 3b: a movement (as by a
group of people) in a specified direction