What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Thrust vs Hustle - What's the difference?

thrust | hustle |

As nouns the difference between thrust and hustle

is that thrust is (fencing) an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point while hustle is a state of busy activity.

As verbs the difference between thrust and hustle

is that thrust is (lb) to make advance with while hustle is to rush or hurry.

thrust

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
  • Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
  • A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
  • The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
  • The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
  • Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
  • (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
  • Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.

    Synonyms

    * (push, stab, or lunge forward ): break, dart, grab * (force generated by propulsion ): lift, push * (primary effort or goal ): focus, gist, point

    Verb

  • (lb) To make advance with .
  • :
  • (lb) To something upon someone.
  • :
  • (lb) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • *(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 .
  • Synonyms

    * (advance with force) attack, charge, rush * (force upon someone) compel, charge, force * (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully) dart, reach, stab

    hustle

    English

    Verb

  • To rush or hurry.
  • I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
  • * 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12
  • Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
  • To con or deceive; especially financially.
  • The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
  • To bundle, to stow something quickly.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
  • To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
  • To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
  • To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
  • To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
  • (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
  • To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
  • *
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of busy activity.
  • A type of disco dance.
  • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle * hustler * hustly

    Anagrams

    *

    References