Shove vs Propel - What's the difference?
shove | propel | Related terms |
To push, especially roughly or with force.
*, chapter=12
, title= To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .
* Garth
To make an all-in bet.
(label) To pass (counterfeit money).
A rough push.
* Jonathan Swift
(poker slang) An all-in bet.
To cause to move in a certain direction.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter V
To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.
* 2005 , .
Shove is a related term of propel.
As verbs the difference between shove and propel
is that shove is to push, especially roughly or with force while propel is to cause to move in a certain direction.As a noun shove
is a rough push.shove
English
Verb
(shov)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all}}
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
Derived terms
* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'pennyNoun
(en noun)- I rested and then gave the boat another shove .
Derived terms
* when push comes to shovepropel
English
Verb
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
- I can discern your nature and see that even without any arguments (logoi) from me it will propel you to what you say you are drawn towards,