Word Finder - pushes

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A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

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Give the door a hard push if it sticks.

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An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

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One more push and the baby will be out.

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A great effort (to do something).

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Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.

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An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.

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A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.

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A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score

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The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.

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The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.

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server push; a push technology

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A particular crowd or throng or people.

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A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time

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To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

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In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.

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To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.

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To press or urge forward; to drive.

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to push an objection too far; to push one's luck

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To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

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Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.

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To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.

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To approach; to come close to.

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He's pushing sixty. (= he's nearly sixty years old)

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To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

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During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push.

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To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.

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To make a higher bid at an auction.

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To make an all-in bet.

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To move (a pawn) directly forward.

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To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.

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To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.

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To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

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To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.

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To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).

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A pustule; a pimple.

Greenie pushes her around.

It is coated with mucus and surrounded by muscles, and pushes food to the stomach by sequential waves of contraction.

A pump pushes the blood through an artificial membrane lung, where oxygen is added and carbon dioxide is removed.

This may be one reason for the feeling of alarm that pushes the patient into compulsive, repetitive actions.

The fan pushes the heat from the ceramic through the room.

Don't be too surprised if she pushes you away.

If your partner pushes you away or seems nervous, suspect something is up.

If he pushes back, the Original Other won't have the luxury of options for taking the gem.

The method of working is for the pole to be swung out behind a number of wagons; one engine is then started and with its pole pushes the wagons in front of it until their speed is sufficient to carry them over the points, where they are diverted into any desired siding.

When mature, each sac pushes out a process to the exterior, and this forms the genital duct.

The liver cells are seen to contain a large globule of fat which pushes the cell nucleus to one side - giving the signet-ring appearance.

A third pencil traces an observation line in which a kick can be made at will by pressing any one of the electrical pushes placed about the car, and a fourth draws a datum line.

As AB moves from CD to EF it pushes forward the layer of air in contact with it.

That layer C A E presses against and pushes forward the next layer and so on.

Here the charging machine lifts one box at a time from its car, pushes it through the momentarily opened furnace door, and empties the metal upon the hearth of the furnace by inverting the box, which it then replaces on its car.

Intermittent LinkworkClick and Ratchet.A click acting opon a ratchet-wheel or rack, which it pushes or pulls through a certain arc at each forward stroke and leaves at rest at each backward stroke, is an example of intermittent linkwork.

The latter are due to the fact that, although, perhaps, the whole mass above the thrust-plane may move, yet the pressure which pushes it forwards necessarily proceeds from behind.

With this method it is necessary that the rake should enter and discharge several times before the retort is clear, and thus the use of a telescopic ram worked by hydraulic power, which pushes the coke before it and discharges it at the other end, is an advantage.

About the beginning of May he is back at his njalla, but as soon as the weather grows warm he pushes up to the mountains, and there throughout the summer pastures his herds and prepares his store of cheese.

The flowering stem pushes up from the root-crown in spring, ultimately reaching from 3 to 4 ft.

A blower then pushes the cold air out into the room.

As the newly hatched baby cuckoo pokes it way out of its shell, it pushes the other eggs out of their rightful nest.

William Elliot Whitmore tho, is nothing if not headstrong and earnestly pushes on, undistracted by the background noise.

In the days before bell pushes, no one would hear a door knocker in a house as large as Aston Hall.

The sun pushes his way through the trees making shadow puppets on the lakes water.

Sometimes electronics of old time synthesizer pushes lead guitars into outer space and riff ever revolving begins again.

The rower pushes his legs against the foot stretcher during the drive phase of the stroke.

He closes and locks the tailgate, then pushes the large sliding doors of the barn open.

A barefoot man pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with tobacco leaves.

Secondly, it does not content itself with the mere formulae of thinking, but pushes forward to theories of method, knowledge and science; and it is a hopeful sign to find this epistemological spirit, to which England was accustomed by Mill, animating German logicians such as Lotze, Daring, Schuppe, Sigwart and Wundt.

A relentless energy pushes the music along, until a recapitulation of the opening leads to the breath-taking close.

Differential refraction pushes the lower limb upwards to create the highly flattened shape.

The remand population pushes the number to twelve thousand.

With a couple of big pushes she was delivered onto a big squashy cushion.

Calling a subroutine pushes the return address onto the stack.

A pinch of the proper powder pushes this bullet out the muzzle at subsonic velocities, thus permitting silent fire.

Pushes whitecaps across cruising with two in a shipment and head back.

He pushes his kick wide of the left post.

Don't be discouraged if your baby pushes it back out again with is tongue; this is just practice.

With the semi version, the pump creates the pressure, and mom pushes a button to release it.

Additionally, if a parent pushes a child towards any type of learning, the child may rebel and may even actually regress.

Since a recliner pushes back and has a place for your feet to rest, it makes a nice "bed."

The pressure from vaginal birth typically pushes some of the fluid out of the lungs.

The longer it is, the more water that pushes through at one time, which that results in a more powerful flush.

The attached rake pushes soiled particles in the litter cartridge into a covered container at one end of the box.

The bottom of the lip barrel twists and pushes the liquid out of the top.

The extra weight in the lower body pushes their weight towards the back of the ski, and into a position known as the "backseat."

In this technique, the skier pushes one ski outward, while the inside edge of the opposite ski is pressed into the snow.

In this graceful and athletic technique, the skier pushes one ski outward, while the inner edge of the opposite ski is pressed into the snow.

Hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, is the force with which the body pushes blood against the artery walls as it travels throughout the circulatory system.