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Thrusting vs Pushing - What's the difference?

thrusting | pushing |

As verbs the difference between thrusting and pushing

is that thrusting is while pushing is .

As nouns the difference between thrusting and pushing

is that thrusting is the motion by which someone or something thrusts while pushing is the act by which something is pushed.

As an adjective pushing is

that pushes forward; pressing, driving.

thrusting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
  • The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
  • The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
    • (Webster 1913)

    pushing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
  • Aggressively assertive; pushy.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
  • *:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
  • *
  • *: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)
  • The act by which something is pushed.

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