thrust : Idioms & Phrases


cut-and-thrust

  • noun fighting with knives
    snickersnee; knife fight.
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Home thrust

  • a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.
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knife thrust

  • noun a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
    thrust; stab.
    • one strong stab to the heart killed him
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straight thrust

  • noun (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
    lunge; passado.
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thrust ahead

  • verb push one's way
    push forward; barge.
    • she barged into the meeting room
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Thrust bearing

  • noun a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution
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  • (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
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thrust fault

  • noun a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression
    overthrust fault; reverse fault.
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thrust out

  • verb push to thrust outward
    obtrude; push out.
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Thrust plane

  • (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
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thrust stage

  • noun a theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
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To thrust awayfrom

  • to push away; to reject.
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To thrust in

  • to push or drive in.
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To thrust off

  • to push away.
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To thrust on

  • to impel; to urge.
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To thrust one's nose into

  • to meddle officiously in.
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To thrust one's self ininto

  • to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome.
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To thrust out

  • to drive out or away; to expel.
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To thrust through

  • to pierce; to stab. "I am eight times thrust through the doublet." Shak.
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To thrust to

  • to rush upon. Obs.
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To thrust together

  • to compress.
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