What is "thrust"

Thrust \Thrust\, n.

1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.

   [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.
   --Dryden.

2. An attack; an assault.

   One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
   --Dr. H. More.

3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.

4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

   Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.

   Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

   Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack.

   Usage: Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.

Thrust \Thrust\, n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]

1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

   Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
   --Milton.

2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.

   To thrust away or To thrust from, to push away; to reject.

   To thrust in, to push or drive in.

   To thrust off, to push away.

   To thrust on, to impel; to urge.

   To thrust one's self in or To thrust one's self into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome.

   To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel.

   To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.''
   --Shak.

   To thrust together, to compress.

Thrust \Thrust\, v. i.

1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

   And thrust between my father and the god.
   --Dryden.

3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. ``Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.''
   --Chapman.

   To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]

   As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
   --Spenser.

late 12c., from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse þrysta "to thrust, force, press," from Proto-Germanic *thrustijanan, perhaps from PIE *treud- "push, press" (see threat), but OED finds this derivation doubtful. Related: Thrusting.

1510s, "act of pressing," from thrust (v.). Meaning "act of thrusting" (in the modern sense) is from 1580s. Meaning "propulsive force" is from 1708. Figurative sense of "principal theme, aim, point, purpose" is recorded from 1968.

n. 1 (context fencing English) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point. 2 A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.) 3 The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine. 4 (context figuratively English) The primary effort; the goal. vb. 1 (lb en intransitive) To make advance with force#Noun. 2 (lb en transitive) To force#Verb something upon someone. 3 (lb en transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully. 4 (lb en transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove. 5 (lb en intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. 6 To stab; to pierce; usually with ''through''.

1. v. push forcefully; "He thrust his chin forward"

2. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: stuff, shove, squeeze]

3. make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, hurtle]

4. impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" [syn: force]

5. penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument [syn: pierce]

6. geology: thrust (molten rock) into pre-existing rock

7. push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air" [syn: push up]

8. place or put with great energy; "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar" [syn: throw]

1. n. the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines" [syn: push]

2. a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him" [syn: stab, knife thrust]

3. the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn: drive, driving force]

4. verbal criticism; "he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians"

5. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting]

Thrust is a 1986 computer game programmed by Jeremy Smith (co-author of Exile) for the BBC Micro and published by Superior Software. The player's aim is to manoeuvre a spaceship by rotating and thrusting, as it flies over a two-dimensional landscape and through caverns. The gameplay of Thrust was heavily inspired by Atari's Gravitar.

Thrust is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. The original character was an evil red Decepticon jet, with most of the following character using the name Thrust being a variation on that concept. The biggest exception being the Thrust who appeared in Beast Machines who was an evil Vehicon who turned into a motorcycle.

Chris France (born July 8, 1976), better known by his stage name Thrust, is a Canadian rapper from Toronto, Ontario. He is most known for his appearance on the Rascalz' 1998 single " Northern Touch" which also features Kardinal Offishall, Choclair, and Checkmate. He was also featured on the pop band soulDecision's biggest hit " Faded".

Thrust now teaches "Artist Series" at the Harris Institute in Toronto. 1

Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's second and third laws. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction, the accelerated mass will cause a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction on that system. The force applied on a surface in a direction perpendicular or normal to the surface is called thrust. Force, and thus thrust, is measured in the International System of Units (SI) as the newton (symbol: N), and represents the amount needed to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass at the rate of 1 meter per second per second.

In mechanical engineering, force orthogonal to the main load (such as in parallel helical gears) is referred to as thrust.

Thrust is a reaction force described by Newton's Second and Third Laws.

Thrust may also refer to:

• Thrust fault, in geology
• Thrust block, a specialised form of thrust bearing used in ships
• Thrust bearing, particular type of rotary bearing
• ThrustSSC, and Thrust2, the land-speed record breaking cars
• Thrust (video game), a computer game
• Thrust (programming), a C++ template library of parallel algorithms similar to the Standard Template Library
• Thrust (rapper), a Canadian hip hop artist
• Thrust (Transformers), several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes
• Thrust (album), a Herbie Hancock fusion album
• Thrust stage, in a theatre, a portion of the stage that extends out from the proscenium into the audience.
• Tongue thrust
• Pelvic thrust

Thrust is a jazz-funk album by Herbie Hancock, released in September 6, 1974 on Columbia Records. It served as a follow-up to Hancock's album, Head Hunters (1973), and achieved similar commercial success, as the album reached as high as number 13 on the Billboard Hot 200 listing. The lineup for Thrust is the same as on Head Hunters, except Mike Clark replaced Harvey Mason on drums. This is Hancock's thirteenth album overall.

The composition "Actual Proof" was originally written for the film The Spook Who Sat By the Door, and Hancock has used it as a demonstration of his style of playing the Fender Rhodes piano.

The composition "Butterfly" would subsequently be performed on the live album, Flood, and two more studio releases: Direct Step and Dis Is Da Drum. Butterfly is the opening track on Eddie Henderson's album Mahal (1978); the album features Hancock on keyboards.

Thrust was published from 1973–1991. It started off as a Fanzine by Doug Fratz Steven L. Goldstein at the University of Maryland until 1976. In 1978, Thrust became a trade magazine.

Thrust was a magazine for science fiction fans, offering commentary and criticism of work published within the genre. Nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1980, it received four other nominations for best semi-prozine in the following years (1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991). As a trade magazine, it expanded rapidly, moving to offset covers. Ultimately the circulation rose to 1,700. Columnists at various times included Ted White, Charles Sheffield, Lou Stathis, John Shirley, Michael Bishop, David Bischoff, Chris Lampton, Darrell Schweitzer and Jeffrey Elliot. Dan Steffan provided art direction for the magazine.