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Thrust vs Stoush - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between thrust and stoush

is that thrust is an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point while stoush is a fight, an argument.

As verbs the difference between thrust and stoush

is that thrust is to make advance with force while stoush is to fight; to argue.

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

    stoush

    English

    Noun

    (stoushes)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
  • * 1996 , , Glamour and the Sea , Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
    • Barry explained that his friend wasn?t drunk, he?d been in a stoush , had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
  • * 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 200,
    • Now Henry knows dead cert he?s in for a stoush , but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
  • * 2004 , Jay Verney, Percussion , University of Queensland Press, page 151,
    • She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica?s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
  • * 2008 , Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 , Fremantle Press, page 63,
    • Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.

    Verb

  • (Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
  • * 1916 , , The Call of Stoush'', ''The Moods of Ginger Mick , 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
    • Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ?E?s done a break— / Gone to the flamin? war to stoush the foe.
  • * 1999 , Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia?s Sporting Life , page 121,
    • The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
  • * 2008 , Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia?s Leading CEOs , 2012, unnumbered page,
    • There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn?t like.

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