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Tug vs Thrust - What's the difference?

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Tug is a related term of thrust.


As verbs the difference between tug and thrust

is that tug is to pull or drag with great effort while thrust is (lb) to make advance with.

As nouns the difference between tug and thrust

is that tug is a sudden powerful pull while thrust is (fencing) an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

tug

English

Verb

(tugg)
  • to pull or drag with great effort
    • The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
  • to pull hard repeatedly
    • He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
  • to tow by tugboat

    • Derived terms

    * tug down * tug up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a sudden powerful pull
  • * Dryden
    • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.}}
  • (nautical) a tugboat
  • (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  • (slang) An act of masturbation
    • He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

    Derived terms

    * tug of war

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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