Word Finder - thrusts

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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.

Then they rose to fight the duel, and I followed the swift thrusts and parries of the swords and the waverings of poor Bob as his courage oozed out at his finger ends.

Highlands of Scotland, and the reversed faults which appear at the surface with the " minor thrusts."

Alternate leg squat thrusts - count reps on 1 leg only.

Folic acid what you need to know Do your pelvic thrusts!

Folic acid what you need to know Do your pelvic thrusts !

The Heimlich maneuver is not performed on infants under one year of age; rather, a series of back blows and chest thrusts are used to attempt to dislodge the foreign object.

The rescuer then applies pressure by a series of upward and inward thrusts to force the foreign object back up the victim's trachea.

The theory behind the Heimlich maneuver is that by compressing the abdomen below the level of the diaphragm with quick abdominal thrusts, an "artificial cough" is created.

The rescuer encircles the child's waist, placing his other hand on top of the fist then gives a series of five quick and distinct inward and upward thrusts.

If the foreign object is not dislodged, the cycle of five thrusts is repeated until the object is expelled or the child becomes unresponsive.

After the abdominal thrusts, the rescuer repeats the process of lifting the chin, moving the tongue, feeling for and possibly removing the foreign material.

If the airway is not clear, the rescuer repeats the abdominal thrusts as often as necessary.

Instead of using abdominal thrusts, chest thrusts are used.

If the victim is unconscious, the chest thrusts are similar to those used in CPR.

Instead, a series of back blows and chest thrusts are used.

Using the free hand, the rescuer places the index and middle finger on the center of the breastbone just below the nipple line and makes gives five quick chest thrusts.

This series of back blows and chest thrusts is alternated until the foreign object is expelled.

Shoulders - Shoulders can also be used for lifts, drops, thrusts, or shimmies.

After that the moves head much more towards the world of hip hop, with many hip thrusts, contractions, shimmies, and the like.

Boot camp circuits use traditional, military-style exercises such as jumping jacks, squat thrusts, sprints, sit-ups and push-ups.

The parasitic actinula is found attached to the proboscis of the medusa; it thrusts its greatly elongated hypostome into the mouth of the medusa and nourishes itself upon the food in the digestive cavity of its host.

Under the fully-developed despotisms of the East a real nobility is impossible; the prince raises and thrusts down as he pleases.

During pairing he thrusts the tip of these organs into the seminal vesicles of the female and the eggs are fertilized as they pass out of the oviduct.

The eggs are deposited in the ovary-wall, usually just below an ovule; after each deposition the moth runs to the top of the pistil and thrusts some pollen into the opening of the stigma.

The effect of such folds is often exaggerated by thrusts, and faulting of this sort is prominent in the southern section, where the existence of over-thrusts measured by several miles has been established.

These descriptive names are highly poetic, as also that of the Portuguese, " beija-flor " (flower-kisser); but the humming-bird is insectivorous, and thrusts his long bill into flowers in search of insects instead of honey.

This latest and also highest range was formed by tremendous thrusts from the Pacific side, crumpling and folding the ancient sedimentary rocks, which run from the Cambrian to the Cretaceous, and faulting them along overturned folds.

The thrusts were easily and nimbly parried by Wallis in a reply (Hobbiani puncti dispunctio, 1657) occupied mainly with the verbal questions.

From the time of Pyrrho overlapping Aristotle himself, who seems to have been well content to use the feints of more than one school among his predecessors, while showing that none of them could claim to get past his guard, down through a period in which the decadent academy under Carneades, otherwise dogmatic in its negations, supplied new thrusts and parries, to Aenesidemus in the late Ciceronian age, and again to Sextus Empiricus, there seems to have been something of plasticity and continuous progress.

The great thrust-plane which is thus imagined to exist at the base of the Himalaya, corresponds with the " major thrusts " of the N.W.

When it is roasted and rolled to his satisfaction he gently heats the centre of the bowl, where there is a small orifice; then he quickly thrusts the end of the dipper into the orifice, twirls it round smartly and withdraws it; if this is properly done, the opium (now about the size of a grain of hemp-seed or a little larger) is left adhering to the bowl immediately over the orifice.

He thrusts his staff into the ground; whereupon it sprouts into a date palm, and thousands are converted.

It should smite the air intelligently and as a master, and its vigorous well-directed thrusts should in every instance elicit an upward and forward recoil.