- (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.
Thrust and Implication
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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"
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"
- Make a thrusting forward movement.
- 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
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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.
noun
- Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
- usage: "his resignation had political implications"
- synonyms: deduction, entailment
- A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
- usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
- synonyms: significance, import
- An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
- A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
- synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
- A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
- usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary