押す

push: 特定の意図をもって, 力を入れて何かを自分の反対側に押し動かすことをいう

press: 指･手足･機械などを使い, 一定の圧力で押すこと

shove: 〘くだけて〙 で, 人や物をある方向にぞんざいに押すことをいう

thrust: 〘主に書〙 で, 人や物を強く突くように押すことをいう

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verb (thrusts, thrusting; past and past participle thrust) with object and adverbial of direction

push (something or someone) suddenly or violently in the specified direction:

〖～ A＋副詞〗 〈人が〉A〈人･物〉をぐっと押す, 押しつける; A〈手など〉を突っ込む (!〖副詞〗は方向の表現)

e.g. she thrust her hands into her pockets

e.g. figurative : Howard was thrust into the limelight

〈人が〉押す, 突く; 刺す; 〈人が〉 【人などに/武器などで】突きかかる «at/with»

e.g. no object : he thrust at his opponent with his sword.

no object, with adverbial of direction (of a person) move or advance forcibly:

｟書｠ ; 〖～＋副詞〗 〈物が〉(水平･垂直方向に)突き出る; 〈人が〉突き進む, 押し分けて進む (!〖副詞〗は方向の表現)

e.g. she thrust through the bramble canes

e.g. he tried to thrust his way past her.

no object, with adverbial of direction (of a thing) extend so as to project conspicuously:

〈手･足など〉を突き出す(out)

e.g. beside the boathouse a jetty thrust out into the water.

(thrust something on/upon) force (someone) to accept or deal with something:

｟かたく｠ 〈人が〉 【人に】〈仕事･責任など〉を押しつける «on, upon» ; «…を» 〈人〉に強いる «into»

e.g. he felt that fame had been thrust upon him.

1. a sudden or violent lunge with a pointed weapon or a bodily part:

ぐっと押すこと, 押し; 強く突き刺すこと, 突き

e.g. he drove the blade upward with one powerful thrust.

a forceful attack or effort:

e.g. executives led a new thrust in business development.

in singular the principal purpose or theme of a course of action or line of reasoning:

〖the ～〗 要点, 主眼, 主旨

e.g. anti-Americanism became the main thrust of their policy.

2. the propulsive force of a jet or rocket engine.

〘機〙 (飛行機などの)推進力, 推力

the lateral pressure exerted by an arch or other support in a building.

推力〘アーチの両端にかかる力〙 〘地〙 〘建〙

3. (also thrust fault) Geology a reverse fault of low angle, with older strata displaced horizontally over younger.

衝上断層

cut and thrust |ˌkəd ən ˈTHrəst |

see cut.

Middle English (as a verb): from Old Norse thrýsta; perhaps related to Latin trudere ‘to thrust’. The noun is first recorded (early 16th century) in the sense ‘act of pressing’.