Thrust word meaning and definition

[noun] a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
[noun] the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"
[noun] a thrusting blow with a knife
[noun] verbal criticism; "he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians"
[noun] the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"
[verb] impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"
[verb] penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
[verb] push forcefully; "He thrust his chin forward"
[verb] make a thrusting forward movement
[verb] press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
[verb] push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air"

\Thrust\, n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 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 {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 {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.'' --Chapman. {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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