Thrust vs Inroad - What's the difference?

Thrust is a related term of inroad.

As nouns the difference between thrust and inroad

is that thrust is (fencing) an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point while inroad is an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion.

As verbs the difference between thrust and inroad

is that thrust is (lb) to make advance with while inroad is (obsolete|transitive) to make an inroad into; to invade.

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

Anagrams

* * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English irregular verbs

inroad

English

Noun

(en noun)

an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion

* 1776 : Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1

The brave and active Contsantius delivered Gaul from a very furious inroad of the Alemanni;

*1850 , '', ''The present time

*:And everywhere the people, or the populace, take their own government upon themselves; and open “kinglessness,” what we call anarchy , […] is everywhere the order of the day. Such was the history, from Baltic to Mediterranean, in Italy, France, Prussia, Austria, from end to end of Europe, in those March days of 1848. Since the destruction of the old Roman Empire by inroad of the Northern Barbarians, I have known nothing similar.

* 1910 : G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World

... our whole great commercial system breaks down. It is breaking down, under the inroad of women who are adopting the unprecedented and impossible course of taking the system seriously and doing it well.

(usually plural) progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem

* 1983 : Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV, episode 1.03)

You must have been fairly surprised at Dr. Glaser's inroads into reprogramming the brain.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To make an inroad into; to invade.

The Saracens conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. — Fuller.