Rap vs Thrust - What's the difference?
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(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
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(uncountable) Blame (for something).
(informal) A casual talk
(uncountable) Rap music.
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
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(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
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(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
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(informal) To talk casually.
Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
* Jonathan Swift
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A whit; a jot.
(fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
(lb) To make advance with .
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(lb) To something upon someone.
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(lb) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
(lb) To push or drive with force; to shove.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Into a dungeon thrust , to work with slaves.
(lb) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:And thrust between my father and the god.
To stab; to pierce; usually with through .
Rap is a related term of thrust.
As nouns the difference between rap and thrust
is that rap is rap, rap music (music style) while thrust is (fencing) an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.As a verb thrust is
(lb) to make advance with.rap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia rap)- The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
Synonyms
* (blame) fallDerived terms
* beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rapEtymology 2
From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .Verb
(rapp)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
- With one great peal they rap the door.
- ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
- He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
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Derived terms
* rap on * rapperSee also
* emcee * hip-hopEtymology 3
Uncertain.Etymology 4
Perhaps contracted from rapparee.Noun
(en noun)- Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
- Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
- I don't care a rap .
- That's not worth a rap .
Anagrams
* ----thrust
English
Noun
(en noun)- Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
- The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
- Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
- Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.