What is the difference between push and nose?

As verbs the difference between push and nose

is that push is (intransitive) to apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force while nose is to move cautiously.

As nouns the difference between push and nose

is that push is a short, directed application of force; an act of pushing or push can be light hair while nose is a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

push

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Verb

(es)

(intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.

You need to push quite hard to get this door open.

To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.

* Jonathan Swift

We are pushed for an answer.

* Spectator

Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor.

To press or urge forward; to drive.

to push''' an objection too far; to '''push one's luck

* Dryden

to push his fortune

To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

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.

(informal) To approach; to come close to.

My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.

He's pushing sixty.'' (= ''he's nearly sixty years old )

To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push .

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)

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.

(obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

* Bible, Exodus xxi. 32

If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, the ox shall be stoned.

To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.

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 down

Antonyms

* (apply a force to something so it moves away) to draw, to pull, to tug * (put onto a stack) to pop

Derived 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 * pushy

Noun

(es)

A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

Give the door a hard push if it sticks.

An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

One more push and the baby will be out.

A great effort (to do something).

Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.

Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.

(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,

Till some wild, excited person

Galloped down the township cursing,

"Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,

Roll up, Dandaloo!"

Derived terms

* give someone the push

Etymology 2

Probably (etyl) poche. See pouch.

Noun

(es)

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

(Francis Bacon)

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nose

English

(wikipedia nose)

Noun

(en noun)

A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

A snout, the nose of an animal.

The tip of an object.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.

(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

The power of smelling.

* Collier

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.

Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.

The skill in recognising bouquet.

(by extension) Skill at finding information.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndrome

Verb

(nos)

To move cautiously.

The ship nosed through the minefield.

To snoop.

She was nosing around other people’s business.

To detect by smell or as if by smell.

* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,

If you find him not within

this month, you shall nose him as you go up the

stairs into the lobby.

To push with one's nose.

* Tennyson

lambs nosing the mother's udder

To nuzzle.

To win by a narrow margin.

To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

to nose a prayer

(Cowley)

Derived terms

* brown-nose * nosey * nose out

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