Connotation and Thrust

noun

• What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
  • synonyms: intension
• An idea that is implied or suggested. .

(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

• (v.t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Thrust.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
• (v.i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
• (n.) An attack; an assault.
• (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
• (n.&v.) Thrist.

noun

• The force used in pushing.
  • usage: "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"
  • synonyms: push
• A strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument.
  • usage: "one strong stab to the heart killed him"
  • synonyms: stab, knife thrust
• The act of applying force to propel something.
  • usage: "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"
  • synonyms: drive, driving force
• Verbal criticism.
  • usage: "he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians"
• A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow. )
  • usage: "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
  • synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting

verb

• Push forcefully.
  • usage: "He thrust his chin forward"
• Press or force.
  • usage: "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
  • synonyms: stuff, shove, squeeze
• Make a thrusting forward movement.
  • synonyms: lunge, hurl, hurtle
• Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.
  • usage: "She forced her diet fads on him"
  • synonyms: force
• Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument.
  • synonyms: pierce
• Force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock.
• Push upward.
  • usage: "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air"
  • synonyms: push up
• Place or put with great energy.
  • usage: "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"
  • synonyms: throw

Thrust is a comparison between the price difference of successively lower pivot bottoms or higher pivot tops. For example, a reduction in the difference between pivot bottoms shows loss of momentum; an increase in the difference shows increased momentum.