What's the difference between rush and speed?

Rush


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
  • (n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
  • (v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
  • (v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
  • (v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
  • (v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
  • (n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
  • (n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
  • (n.) A perfect recitation.
  • (n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
  • (n.) The act of running with the ball.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (2) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
  • (3) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
  • (4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
  • (5) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
  • (6) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (7) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
  • (8) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
  • (9) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
  • (10) Nightmarish visions of suicide bombers and dead children, a rushed conversion to Catholicism, and a mental breakdown over the war on Iraq.
  • (11) It is essential that charities integrate new trustees well from day one – and the process must not be rushed.
  • (12) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
  • (13) I’m not satisfied until I collect everything' … EFL Cup Europa League International Champions Cup Community Shield Which competition was Ian Rush talking about when he said: 'This is why cup finals are so special, because anyone can beat anyone.
  • (14) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
  • (15) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
  • (16) Lawyers acting for a severely disabled prisoner who was rushed from jail to a life-support machine in hospital, are asking the high court to rule he should not be sent back to a prison that cannot meet his medical needs.
  • (17) He advises first-time buyers not to rush in: "Try and save as much as you can: having a bigger deposit will not only mean you can get a mortgage, but also secure you a better rate."
  • (18) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
  • (20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.

Speed


Definition:

  • (n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
  • (n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
  • (n.) To go; to fare.
  • (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
  • (n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
  • (n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
  • (n.) To be expedient.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
  • (v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
  • (v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
  • (3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
  • (4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (6) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
  • (8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
  • (11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
  • (12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
  • (13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
  • (15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
  • (16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
  • (17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
  • (19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
  • (20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.