(v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.
(v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
(v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.
(v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
(v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
(v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
(v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
(v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
(n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
(n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
(n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
(n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(2) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(3) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
(4) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(5) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
(6) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(7) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(8) The view that testes found lateral to the external ring and which could be pushed some way into the scrotum were merely retractile was questioned.
(9) There’s a fine line between pushing them to their limits and avoiding injury, and Alberto is a master at it.
(10) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(11) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(12) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
(13) The minister for health, Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo, says he is determined to push ahead with ambitious plans for universal free healthcare.
(14) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
(15) That may well be the case, but it is extremely unlikely that Britain would be able to choose the terms of its future cooperation with the EU and not face push-back from member states.
(16) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(17) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(18) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
(19) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
(20) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
Stroller
Definition:
(n.) One who strolls; a vagrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she was about two, three months old he bought me a stroller and a $700 crib.
(2) The 4-in-1 Combi (£499) saves you buying multiple products, as it’s a carrycot, car seat and pushchair rolled into one, and the Upp stroller (£199) is suitable for children of six months plus.
(3) A paramedic who was at the scene said he treated the baby’s mother for a serious head wound and that the car had hit the baby’s stroller.
(4) Infants, raised to be white, were bundled in strollers.
(5) I'd bought half a dozen oysters, some bread and sausage and sat watching strollers, cyclists, runners and roller bladers taking full advantage of the promenade.
(6) Praia do Cabeço is popular with clammers but also families and strollers, and runs from Monte Gordo to Manta Rota.
(7) Last week, one such stroller jam in San Antonio, Texas was disrupted after Target reportedly asked the demonstrators to leave the parking lot , prompting complaints that the chain was treating pro-gun activists more leniently than those who are trying to improve public safety in America.
(8) Rue de la Caisserie was laid out by Greek settlers more than 2,000 years ago, and has been busy with shoppers, strollers and drinkers ever since.
(9) Often such injuries and deaths are associated with use of consumer products, including products designed for children aged less than 1 year (i.e., strollers, walkers, car seats, and infant carriers [ICs]).
(10) Sherry West said she had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment on Thursday morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller when she was approached by a tall, skinny teenager, accompanied by a smaller boy.
(11) The event, which coincided on Saturday with Shared Streets, closed car traffic from Park Avenue near Central Park down along more than 60 blocks for five hours, allowing cyclists and casual strollers unimpeded, avenue-wide access.
(12) These were thought to be due to a fall from a stroller.
(13) Among those killed in the hit-and-run attacks have been a three-month-old child, Chaya Zissel Braun , struck in her stroller, a Druze border policeman, Jedan Assad, and a 17-year-old religious student, Shalom Baadani.
(14) This comes at the heels of two Muslim women in Brooklyn who were physically assaulted by a woman as they pushed their babies in strollers.
(15) Sitting in her stroller last month as her mother pushed her through Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, Mila looked anything but distressed.
(16) Here comes a young couple, the man with his arm around the woman's waist, the woman pushing a stroller.
(17) Lincoln Park is full of strollers now, ambling up and down Wells Street.
(18) Nykea Aldridge, a cousin of the NBA star Dwyane Wade, was shot and killed in Chicago on Friday, while pushing her baby in a stroller near a school where she intended to register her children.
(19) When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o'clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.
(20) The vision is for an "aquatic National Trust" galvanising the estimated 11 million Britons who regularly benefit from them – boaters, anglers, cyclists, runners, Sunday strollers and waterside property dwellers – to invest time and money to protecting them for generations to come.