Push vs Bush - What's the difference?
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(intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
* Jonathan Swift
* Spectator
To press or urge forward; to drive.
* Dryden
To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
(informal) To approach; to come close to.
To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
To make a higher bid at an auction.
(poker) To make an all-in bet.
(chess) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
* 1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)
(obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
* Bible, Exodus xxi. 32
To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
A great effort (to do something).
(military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
(computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push'', ''push technology .
(dated) A crowd or throng or people
* 1891 , Banjo Paterson,
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category .
* , chapter=1
, title= (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially'' a woman's; ''loosely , a woman's vulva.
* 1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs Of Fanny Hill ,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 787:
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
* (William Shakespeare)
(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
* 1726 , '', 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ,
To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
# (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely , areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
#* 1894 , (Henry Lawson), We Called Him “Ally” for Short'', ''Short Stories in Prose and Verse ,
#* 1899 , , (Dot and the Kangaroo) ,
#* 2000 , Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood ,
# (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
# (Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
(Canadian) A woodlot or on a farm.
The noun "bush", used attributively.
(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
To furnish with a bush or lining.
In transitive terms the difference between push and bush
is that push is to continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.) while bush is to furnish with a bush or lining.In intransitive terms the difference between push and bush
is that push is to continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action while bush is to branch thickly in the manner of a bush.As verbs the difference between push and bush
is that push is to apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force while bush is to branch thickly in the manner of a bush.As nouns the difference between push and bush
is that push is a short, directed application of force; an act of pushing while bush is a woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.As an adjective bush is
the noun "bush", used attributively.As an adverb bush is
towards the direction of the outback.As a proper noun Bush is
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English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Verb
(es)- In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.
- You need to push quite hard to get this door open.
- We are pushed for an answer.
- Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor.
- to push''' an objection too far; to '''push one's luck
- to push his fortune
- Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.
- They're pushing that perfume again.
- There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.
- My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.
- He's pushing sixty.'' (= ''he's nearly sixty years old )
- During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push .
- When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
- If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, the ox shall be stoned.
Synonyms
* to press, to shove, to thrutch * (continue to attempt to persuade) to press, to urge * (continue to promote) to press, to advertise, to promote * (come close to) to approach, to near * to press, to shove, to thring * (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents) to bear downAntonyms
* (apply a force to something so it moves away) to draw, to pull, to tug * (put onto a stack) to popDerived terms
* pedal pushers * push around * push-bike * pushful * push in * push off * push one's luck * pushover * push someone's buttons * push it * push-up * pushyNoun
(es)- Give the door a hard push if it sticks.
- One more push and the baby will be out.
- Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.
- Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.
- Till some wild, excited person
- Galloped down the township cursing,
- "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,
- Roll up, Dandaloo!"
Derived terms
* give someone the pushEtymology 2
Probably (etyl) poche. See pouch.Noun
(es)- (Francis Bacon)
bush
English
(wikipedia bush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) busch, busshe, from (etyl) busc, , (etyl) bois and buisson, (etyl) bosco and boscaglia, (etyl) bosque, (etyl) bosque) derive from the Germanic. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.Noun
(es)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes . Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Gutenberg eBook #25305,
- As he stood on one side, unbuttoning his waistcoat and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landscape lay fairly open to my view; a wide open mouthed gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush , seemed held out like a beggar?s wallet for its provision.
- But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush .
- If it be true that good wine needs no bush , 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
Synonyms
* (category of woody plant) shrub * See alsoDerived terms
* a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush * beat about the bush/beat around the bush * bush airline * bush fire * bush frog * bushlike * bushly * bush telegraph * bushyVerb
(es)page 404,
- Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
- to bush peas
- to bush''' a piece of land; to '''bush seeds into the ground
Etymology 2
From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.Noun
(es)Derived terms
* good wine needs no bushEtymology 3
From (etyl) bosch'' (modern ''bos'') ("''wood, forest "), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies as bush.Noun
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607911,
- I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900681h,
- Little Dot had lost her way in the bush .
page 16,
- The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
Derived terms
* Alaskan bush * bush ague * bushbaby * bush aircraft * bush airline * bush bread * bush buggy * bush camp * bush clearing * bush coat * bush company * bush country * bush cowboy * bushcraft * bushcraft * bush-crew * bushed * bush fever * bush fire * bush flier, bush flyer * bush flying * bush-French * bush gang * bush horse * bush Indian * bushland * bush lawyer * bush lore * bush lot * bush mail * (Canadian) bushman * bushmark * bush meat, bushmeat * bush partridge * bush party * bush people * bush pilot * bush plane * bush-pop * bush-popper * bush rabbit * bush ranch * bush ranching * bush-range * bushranger, bush-ranger * bush rat * bush road * bush-rover * bush-runner * bush searcher * bush tavern * bush tea * bush trail * bush tucker * bush week * bushwhack * bushwhacker * bushwhacking * bush-whisky * bushwork * bushworker * go bush * sugar bush * take to the bushSee also
* backblock, outback * bushman (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)Adjective
(-)- The bush' vote; '''bush''' party; '''bush''' tucker; '''bush''' aristocracy; ' bush tea
Adverb
(-)- On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
Etymology 4
Adjective
(en adjective)- They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush .
Noun
(es)- The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush .
Etymology 5
From (etyl) busse 'box; wheel bushing', from (etyl) .Noun
(es)- (Farrow)
Verb
- to bush a pivot hole