Rush vs Enter - What's the difference?
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Any of several stiff aquatic or marsh plants of the genus Juncus , having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers.
The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
The merest trifle; a straw.
* (rfdate) (Arbuthnot)
A sudden forward motion.
* Sir H. Wotton
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 A surge.
General haste.
A rapid, noisy flow.
(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
A rusher; a lineman.
A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
(US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities]] and [[sorority, sororities.
(US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
* (Thomas Sprat) (1635–1730)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=
, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= To dribble rapidly.
To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
(label) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
To make a swift or sudden attack.
(label) To swiftly attach to without warning.
(label) To transport or carry quickly.
To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
(lb) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
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*:Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
(lb) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
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(lb) To go or come into (a state or profession).
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (lb) To type (something) into a computer; to .
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(lb) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
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To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
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*:I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.
To become effective; to come into effect.
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(lb) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
(legal) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.
to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry .
(transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
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to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
(obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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*:This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.
As a proper noun rush
is (computing) a dialect of the language.As a noun enter is
the "enter" key on a computer keyboard.rush
English
(wikipedia rush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rusch, risch, from (etyl) rysc, risc, from (etyl) ).Noun
(rushes)- John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush .
Etymology 2
Perhaps from (etyl) ruschen, . More at (l). (etymology note) An alternative etymology traces rush'' via (etyl) . Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of (etyl) russher, , although connection to the same (etyl) root is also possible. More at ''rouse .Noun
(rushes)- A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush , severed him from the duke.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.
- the center rush , whose place is in the center of the rush line
Derived terms
* adrenalin rush * bum's rush * rush goalie * rush hour * rush job * sugar rushVerb
(es)- Theynever think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
- Like to an entered tide, they all rush by.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(-)- a rush job
Usage notes
Used only before a noun.See also
* rushes * * * English ergative verbs English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic wordsenter
English
Alternative forms
* entreVerb
(en verb)The historie of Wyates rebellion, with the order and maner of resisting the same, […], passage=
Our banks are out of control, passage=Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining".}}
- to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
- (Burrill)
- entered according to act of Congress