Pushing vs Striking - What's the difference?
pushing | striking |
Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.
That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
Aggressively assertive; pushy.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
*:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
Making a strong impression.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking . In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
The act by which something strikes or is struck.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
As verbs the difference between pushing and striking
is that pushing is while striking is .As adjectives the difference between pushing and striking
is that pushing is that pushes forward; pressing, driving while striking is making a strong impression.As nouns the difference between pushing and striking
is that pushing is the act by which something is pushed while striking is the act by which something strikes or is struck.pushing
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*striking
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(en noun)- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
