Functioning and Rush

functioning

Process or manner of functioning or operating.
- usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
- synonyms: operation, performance

Perform as expected when applied.
- usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
Serve a purpose, role, or function.
- usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
- synonyms: serve, function
Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
- usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
- synonyms: officiate, function

Performing or able to perform its regular function.
- usage: "a functioning flashlight"

rush

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner.
- usage: "in his haste to leave he forgot his book"
- synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing
A sudden forceful flow.
- synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge
Grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems.
Physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813.
- synonyms: Benjamin Rush
The swift release of a store of affective force.
- usage: "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
- synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, thrill, kick
A sudden burst of activity.
- usage: "come back after the rush"
American football. ( an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line)
- usage: "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush"
- synonyms: rushing

Move fast.
- usage: "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"
- synonyms: hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it
Attack suddenly.
Urge to an unnatural speed.
- usage: "Don't rush me, please"
- synonyms: hurry
Act or move at high speed.
- usage: "We have to rush"; "hurry-it's late"
- synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate
Run with the ball, in football.
Cause to move fast or to rush or race.
- usage: "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"
- synonyms: race
Cause to occur rapidly.
- usage: "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
- synonyms: induce, stimulate, hasten

(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
(v.t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
(v.i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
(n.) A perfect recitation.
(n.) The act of running with the ball.
(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
(v.t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
(v.i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Rush is a masculine given name