What's the difference between pusher and rusher?

Pusher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, pushes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of the study was to characterize flow properties within a clinical pusher plate type artificial heart.
  • (2) This system consists of a flexible rod, sheath, crank, and cam to transmit the muscle power to a pusher plate pump and actuate it.
  • (3) The only real calculation is the division of 530,000 by anticipated audience size; if the pen-pushers have it right, their budget wins - and if I had to play a hunch, I'd say it probably will.
  • (4) Indonesia says Duterte has given it permission to execute Mary Jane Veloso Read more In the run-up to the May election that he won with significant margins, Duterte said the Philippines should build funeral parlours, not prisons, to cope with drug pushers in his time in office.
  • (5) From his brutal Pusher trilogy to the weird and wonderful anti-biopic Bronson , these films are more like art installations, shimmering with stylish violence and near-hallucinatory moments.
  • (6) A biventricular bypass type total artificial heart (BVB-TAH) utilizing two pusher-plate pumps was developed and implanted in a sheep for 48 days with excellent results.
  • (7) Traditional R&B performance: Please Come Home, Gary Clark Jr. R&B song: Pusher Love Girl, James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley and Justin Timberlake.
  • (8) The tapered distal pigtail end minimizes bladder irritation and the combination of a pusher and absorbable suture enables optimal placement of the proximal pigtail end in the renal pelvis.
  • (9) The blood pump with a single port is of a pneumatic pusher-plate type, and a Björk-Shiley valve is mounted in the port.
  • (10) The prototype system consists of a brushless dc motor inside of a rolling-cylinder, two arc-shaped pusher-plates and two polyurethane sacs.
  • (11) A low pressure pneumatic pusher plate blood pump was developed for temporary right, left, or biventricular assist.
  • (12) To evaluate the effects of an RVAD on myocardial ischemic injury during right coronary artery (RCA) ligation, a pneumatically driven pusher plate pump was inserted between the right atrium and pulmonary artery, and the RCA was ligated at its origin for two hr.
  • (13) To leave young people to the mercy of pushers and adulterators is the real crime.
  • (14) With the aid of a small caliber fiberendoscope and a pusher tube, the prosthesis was positioned under continuous visual control, using only local anesthesia.
  • (15) For the hydrodynamic analysis, we designed three basic types of pump (sac type, diaphragm type, and pusher plate type) using the same material and having the same capacity and shape.
  • (16) The rotational motion of the motor was converted to the rectilinear motion of the rollerscrew to displace the left and right pusher-plates in the left master alternate mode.
  • (17) A variable volume device references the back side of the pusher plates to lung pressure.
  • (18) David Cesarani's 2004 biography of Eichmann , for example, shows him to be no back-room pen-pusher, but an enthusiastic Nazi keen to play his part in developing creative solutions to "the Jewish problem".
  • (19) The position of the pusher plate is determined from the number of BDCM revolutions.
  • (20) The laser pulses were synchronized with the piezoelectric pusher movement so that alternate laser pulses measured the atomic fluorescence signal at the analytical atomic spectral line (on-line) and the background signal at a wavelength displaced to one side of the atomic line (off-line).

Rusher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rushes.
  • (n.) One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New York need pass rushers and while LSU's Barkevious Mingo has greater experience, Ansah's raw skillset may appeal.
  • (2) Brown, who played nine seasons with Cleveland between 1957 and 1965 and retired as the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, revealed he hadn’t voted for Trump, but said: ‘We couldn’t have had a better meeting.” He continued: “The graciousness, the intelligence, the reception we got was fantastic.
  • (3) The name Death Valley was bestowed in 1849 by a band of lost California-bound gold rushers, one of whom did actually die while trying to cross it.
  • (4) I’m a little surprised by this pick – the Browns have greater need in the secondary than they do on the defensive line, in my opinion, but it just goes to show the premium placed on pass rushers in a pass-happy league.
  • (5) Drew Brees somehow escapes from a collapsing pocket, emerging unscathed from a mob of at least three pass rushers who had converged upon him to pitch a short pass over the middle that Marques Colston takes for 15 yards.
  • (6) But it is what it is, and I just wish you guys would see me as ‘Michael Sam the football player’, instead of ‘Michael Sam the gay football player’.” Sam’s wish was granted on a few occasions over the course of his 12-minute press conference, reporters asking whether he would be comfortable converting to play as a linebacker in the pros – “I’m a pass rusher, so if you put me in a situation to get the quarterback, I’m going to get the quarterback” – and what areas he had been focusing on in training – “everything from my 40[-yard dash] to the vertical jump” – but inevitably conversation returned most often to his announcement.
  • (7) Right now they have issues on defense, including the lack of a Von Miller , a fierce pass rusher whose absence will mean the Broncos have to blitz more, leaving them more vulnerable in the backfield.
  • (8) • ‘Dropping dead is my retirement’: the gold rushers of Williston – in pictures
  • (9) The Jags are prime candidates to trade down, but if they don't receive a good enough offer they will likely go with a pass rusher here instead – and postpone their quarterback search to rounds two or three (where, after all, Wilson was found last year).
  • (10) But he was my top pass rusher on the board, and I think he’ll do just fine – as long as the Dolphins draw up the right schemes to take advantage of his remarkable speed off the edge.
  • (11) I had the Jags taking a pass rusher – which they also desperately need – and there will be a lot of fans pulling their hair out about the quarterback situation, but there simply isn’t a QB out there worthy of this pick.
  • (12) Coming off a 10-sack season and career year, Mark Anderson was added to be the other pass rusher on the outside.

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