Word Finder - thrust

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An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

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Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.

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A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

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The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"

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The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

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Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.

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The primary effort; the goal.

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Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.

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To make advance with force.

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We thrust at the enemy with our forces.

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To force something upon someone.

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I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.

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To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.

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He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.

Three were thrust at her.

While they were talking a maid thrust her head in at the other door of the sitting room.

She opened her pocketbook and pulled out a white envelope and thrust it at Dean.

In this case the thrust at the lower end B must exceed the thrust at A, the upper end, by the weight of the prism of liquid; so that, denoting the cross section of the prism by a ft.

The broad thrust of the Group 's strategy remains unchanged.

They hack but never thrust with them.

He was evidently afraid the prisoners looking on would laugh at him, and thrust his head into the shirt hurriedly.

Hard turns and climbs can result in a strange stall experience where the copter "slides off" its cushion of air, and fails to deliver enough thrust downwards to stay aloft.

When you thrust the Wii Remote forward, your on-screen character will throw a right punch.

After your character is just the way you want, you are thrust into the world to begin your adventure.

With tragedies like those at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech University, the issues surrounding video game violence and children have been thrust to the forefront.

The engine sound will initially decrease to idle speed, but then increase as reverse thrust is applied.

That old man noticed a face thrust out of the carriage window gazing at them, and respectfully touching Pierre's elbow said something to him and pointed to the carriage.

Thrust the nunchuk forward and your character will throw a left punch.

Video games changed when the public-proclaimed mascot hit the home console market, mainly because he was cute, but also because he was just an ordinary guy thrust into an extraordinary situation.

For example, you have a sword that you can thrust into a ghost's body, stabbing it into the ground.

Michael Jackson impersonators and dance troupes are copying entire segments of MJ's choreography, whereas in the 80s, most people only associated the moonwalk and the signature pelvic thrust with Michael Jackson.

It's easy to thrust your shoulders forward when doing presses or pulls.

One theory of the cause of lisping is the result of tongue thrusting, a physiological behavior that causes the tongue to flatten and thrust forward during swallowing and speaking.

Tongue thrusting-A physiological behavior that causes the tongue to flatten and thrust forward during swallowing and speaking.

For an infant, the rescuer opens the airway using a gentle head tilt/chin lift or jaw thrust, places their mouth over the infant's mouth and nose then delivers gentle breaths so that the infant's chest rises with each breath.

Tush Push - Another Country Line Dance, this one bears a strong resemblance to the "Time Warp," because of the inclusion of a double pelvic thrust in the middle of each step.

A few of Michael Jackson's signature moves are the moonwalk, the hip thrust, and his basic spin.

Audiences around the world went crazy for Michael Jackson's hip thrust.

Perhaps similar to the reaction of fans to Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson created a signature hip thrust that he executed in perfect timing to the music.

If you get the timing and the rhythm right, you too can thrill the world with a simple hip thrust.

So instead of achieving good forward thrust, the swimmer is continually thrusting partially upward, rather than fully forward.

Since wearing swim fins increases leg strength and flexibility, the lower half of the body is better able to remain level with the upper body, a much better position for achieving forward thrust.

The main thrust of her autobiography states that she fully believes that "magic" is all around us, and that each culture puts their own stamp on this magic.

The kitten style keeps your calf muscle flexed in a halfway position, and the balance of your body does not thrust your weight fully onto either the ball or heel of your foot.

The pleasantly plump talk show host shot to stardom in the 1990s when his nationally syndicated conservative talk-radio show thrust him into the political limelight.

It's a universe in which humans from an earth-like planet called Kobal, are thrust into space when the 12 human colonies are destroyed by the Cylons.

While many names listed here live on in obscurity, TV and movies have thrust some superheroines into the spotlight.

As the prisoners, clad in penitential haircloth, were led across the bridge, wanton boys thrust sharp sticks between the planks to wound their feet.

The KOko Shimbun was suppressed; Fukuchi was thrust into prison, arid all journals or periodicals except those having official sanction were vetoed.

Thus Arakawa Reiun, one of Kouns most brilliant pupils, has exhibited a figure of a swordsman in the act of driving home a furious thrust.

This is an upright frame, usually made in wrought iron or steel strutted by diagonal thrust beams against the engine-house wall or other solid abutments, the height to the bearings of the guide pulleys being from 80 to 1 00 ft.

Destined for the church by the family council which deprived him of his birthright, he was sent when about thirteen years of age to St Sulpice, where he conceived a dislike of the doctrines and discipline thrust upon him.

But the Babylonian Empire followed upon traditional lines and thrust back Egypt, and Nabonidus (553 B.C.) claims his vassals as far as Gaza.

In 409 or 410 Synesius, whose Christianity had until then been by no means very pronounced, was popularly chosen to be bishop of Ptolemais, and, after long hesitation on personal and doctrinal grounds, he ultimately accepted the office thus thrust upon him, being consecrated by Theophilus at Alexandria.

Nearly $600,000,000 of " fiat money " had been thrust into the channels of commerce in addition to $346,000,000 of legal tender notes that had been issued during the Civil War.

Thereafter, whatever befell, the allied armies would resolutely press forward towards Paris, affording each other mutual support, and with the tremendous weight of troops at their disposal thrust back Napoleon upon his capital, force him to fight in front of it, and drive him when defeated within its works.

On the other hand, a girder imposes only a vertical load on its piers and abutments, and not a horizontal thrust, as in the case of an arch or suspension chain.

The intermediate piers should also have considerable stability, so as to counterbalance the thrust arising when one arch is loaded while the other is free from load.

The bracing bars, therefore, for this part of the girder must be adapted to resist either tension or thrust.

The direction of YX, being a thrust upwards, shows the direction in which we must go round the triangle YXE to find the direction of the two other forces; doing this we find that the force XE must act down towards the point YXE, and the force EY away from the same point.

Of the tribes which occupy the mountains of Siam some are the remnants of the very ancient inhabitants of the country, probably of the Mohn-Khmer family, who were supplanted by a later influx of more civilized Khmers from the south-east, the forerunners and part-ancestors of the Siamese, and were still farther thrust into the remoter hills when the Lao-Tai descended from the north.

The southern boundary of this belt is formed by a great thrust-plane, the faille du midi, along which the Devonian beds of the south have been thrust over the carboniferous beds of the coalfield.

But now Neoplatonism was thrust from the great stage of history.

Sheep-farming on a large scale was next introduced, and the crofters were thrust into villages or barren corners of the land.