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Keywords: Rocket, Rearward, Propel, Push, Jet
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.
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To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
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To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
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To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
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An attack; an assault.
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A sharp accented movement of any part of the body. A sudden impulse usually associated with isolated movements that attack and withdraw quickly.
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An attack made with a straight movement of the blade, landing with the point.
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a strong exaggerated impulse
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A type of fault where the rocks that lie above the fault are carried up with respect to those below. Consequently they thicken rock layers up - an expression of contractional deformation. Thrusts are one of the building blocks of mountain belts formed by continent-continent collision (e.g. Alps, Himalayas).
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low angle reverse fault
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A low-angle fault (or fracture) over which rocks are transported, with the direction of transportation up the dip of the fault. Thrusts form when the Earth's crust is placed under compression, such as in zones of continental collision.
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geology: thrust (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
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Keywords: Stab, Sharp, Jab, Gesture, Violent
To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
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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.
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a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him"
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a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
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Form of stage which projects into the auditorium so that the audience are seated on at least two sides of the extended piece.
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A type of stage which projects out into the auditorium and has audience seated on three sides.
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A stage configuration in which the playing area protrudes into the audience; the actors have audience on three sides of them.
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A move in which the swimmer begins in the back pike position, with the legs perpendicular to the surface, then moves the legs and hips rapidly upward, unrolling the body to to assume the vertical position.
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A move that starts from a back pike position with the legs perpendicular to the surface and involves a rapid vertical upward movement of the legs and hips as the body unrolls to assume the vertical position.
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Thrust is a Canadian hip hop artist from Toronto. He is most known for the 1998 single "Northern Touch" which featured Kardinal Offishall, Choclair, Rascalz and Checkmate.
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