Thrust vs Shoved - What's the difference?

thrust | shoved |

As verbs the difference between thrust and shoved

is that thrust is (lb) to make advance with while shoved is (shove).

As a noun thrust

is (fencing) an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

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

shoved

English

Verb

(head)

(shove)

shove

English

Verb

(shov)

To push, especially roughly or with force.

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To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .

* Garth

He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

To make an all-in bet.

(label) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'penny

Noun

(en noun)

A rough push.

* Jonathan Swift

I rested and then gave the boat another shove .

(poker slang) An all-in bet.

Derived terms

* when push comes to shove