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Thrust vs Swim - What's the difference?

thrust | swim |

As a noun thrust

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

As a verb thrust

is (lb) to make advance with.

As an initialism swim is

someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself.

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

    swim

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To float.
  • * 2 Kings VI:6 (KJV)
  • And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim .
  • *Wm. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
  • Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
  • To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
  • ''For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
    I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
  • * Dryden
  • Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
  • (uncommon) To cause to swim.
  • to swim a horse across a river
    Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.
  • To be overflowed or drenched.
  • * Psalm VI:6 (KJV)
  • I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
  • * Thomson
  • Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim .
  • To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
  • to swim wheat in order to select seed

    Derived terms

    * sink or swim * swim like a fish * swimmer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of swimming.
  • I'm going for a swim .
  • The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
  • (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
  • Derived terms

    * in the swim