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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
propel
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ The recession that helped propel Clinton to the White House is long gone.
▪ It's a wooden object, about six-by-eight feet, with rope to help propel a projectile.
▪ John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Four jet engines propel the 8,300-ton ship.
▪ Rachel's stunning good looks helped propel her to stardom.
▪ The pelican's strong legs and webbed feet propel it in water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An aircraft wanders through the upper atmosphere bee-like, propelled by loneliness.
▪ Even a diminished Magic should be enough to propel the Lakers into championship contention.
▪ Exquisitely judged dynamics propelled the third movement.
▪ Firefighters reported seeing burning embers on some slopes being propelled as much as a mile in front of the flames.
▪ Many predict that electronic commerce will propel global computer networks from the fringe into the core of business.
▪ This soldier carries a hand gun, a simple firearm which can propel a lead or stone shot with considerable velocity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propel

Propel \Pro*pel"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Propelling.] [L. propellere, propulsum; pro forward + pellere to drive. See Pulse a beating.] To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
propel

mid-15c., "to drive away, expel," from Latin propellere "push forward, drive forward, drive forth; move, impel," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + pellere "to push, drive" (see pulse (n.1)). Meaning "to drive onward, cause to move forward" is from 1650s. Related: Propelled; propelling.

Wiktionary
propel

vb. 1 To cause to move in a certain direction. 2 To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.

WordNet
propel
  1. v. cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship" [syn: impel]

  2. give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, move, prompt, incite]

  3. [also: propelling, propelled]

Wikipedia
PROPEL

The Projek Penyelenggaraan Lebuhraya Berhad (PROPEL Berhad) is the largest highway maintenance operator in Malaysia. A member of UEM Group, the company has undertaken repair and maintenance works on highway facilities, such as road works and repair works, road line painting, cleaning works on lay-bys and rest and service areas, trimming grass and landscaping along expressway areas, road furniture instalment and others. PROPEL Berhad was delisted from Bursa Malaysia as it became an operating business unit of UEM Group Berhad.

Propel (PHP)

Propel is a free, open-source ( MIT) object-relational mapping toolkit written in PHP. It is also an integral part of the PHP framework Symfony and was the default ORM up to, and including version 1.2.

Usage examples of "propel".

They had failed to anticipate the radical fervor with which an entire stratum of privileged intellectuals would attempt to propel the American revolution beyond the boundaries of bourgeois democracy.

It propelled Mark through the batwing doors and into the hitching rail.

The weary tendons propelling him caught and skipped like frayed cables, one excruciating step after another.

Tweed propelled the little man toward a hydrofoil bobbing alongside the nearby wharf.

When Mamo comes in and switches on a lamp, she is startled by a young body propelled forward off the wall like a stone from a sling.

McCoy repeated and, taking him by the other arm, he and Uhura propelled Maslin to his tent.

As the barrel of the pistol rose towards her, Deb made a small and breathy noise, not a scream but saturated in fear, and Wimbarton let out a squawk, propelling the mountebank across the room with an almighty shove.

As I propelled the car at fifty miles an hour along the open deck of the overpass Vaughan arched his back and lifted the young woman into the full glare of the headlamps behind us.

The thought of letting Littel fall back into the hands of Palle and his company was propelling him along at new found speed.

The clean-cut, mostly Spanish players strapped a basketlike cesta on their arm and propelled a hard ball, the pelota, at their opponents.

Most of them were biremes, and there were several penteconters, open galleys with decks fore and aft and propelled by fifty oars as well as sails.

The peristaltic field seized him at once, and propelled him forward while he lay back luxuriously, watching his surroundings.

Regard for rank and riches propelled the Marquess of Rockingham and the Duke of Grafton to the premiership and the Duke of Richmond to office as Secretary of State in the 1760s.

Lizzie, protesting, to her feet, and propelled her toward the circle of dancers.

As her tiny holding cell propelled itself from the rammer toward one of the intimidating warglobes, Tasia pondered the depth of the trouble that the Terran Hanseatic League was in.