Ramming vs Pushing - What's the difference?
ramming | pushing |
An intentional collision, where something is rammed.
* 2000 , Patrick G. Coy, Lynne M. Woehrle, Social Conflicts and Collective Identities
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.
As verbs the difference between ramming and pushing
is that ramming is while pushing is .As nouns the difference between ramming and pushing
is that ramming is an intentional collision, where something is rammed while pushing is the act by which something is pushed.As an adjective pushing is
that pushes forward; pressing, driving.ramming
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(en noun)- extensive damage done to Royal Navy frigates by rammings by Iceland Coast Guard.