(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.
Whiz
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
(n.) A hissing and humming sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News: “It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.
(2) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
(3) Updated at 10.57am BST 10.35am BST Here's a graph showing how 10-year Greek bonds have rallied in value in recent months (via fund manager and general financial whiz @pawelmorski ).
(4) Maturity, social skills and being a team player are meaningless, as long as you're a whiz coder or can invent that app people didn't know they needed.
(5) 16 - JJ Abrams Surely the busiest man in Hollywood, and indeed TV, production whiz Abrams returns to directing with a sequel to his massively fun reboot of Star Trek .
(6) Editing a Keynote slide: guide lines show when you have proportions correct (photo downsampled from 4MB screenshot) If you're a Powerpoint whiz (everyone thinks they are; very few are) then this won't satisfy you.
(7) It’s the close of another Broadway season, which means we have another chance to pit jukebox musicals against original compositions, real narratives against invented ones and showbiz whiz-bang against low-key cool.
(8) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.
(9) Beyond archeology there are other Gaza surprises, like surfers hanging ten, documented in the film God Went Surfing With the Devil, and an English language tourism website , designed by internet whiz Mohammed Alafranji.
(10) You could call Goddard a bog-standard head, too, since he couldn't be further removed from one of those Teach First whiz-kids fresh out of Balliol.
(11) The whiz and blur of projectiles flying past us, ricocheting of the street.
(12) A solid device beneath a layer of whiz-bang frippery - New York Times Digging beneath the gimmicky features the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo found a solid, basic smartphone .
(13) It also completes a miserable few weeks for Facebook's 26-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg , the whiz-kid who lists "openness", "revolutions" and "making things" in the interests section of his own Facebook page.
(14) There’s always been an element out there that valued the ‘gee whiz’ factor rather than the economics,” says Moore.
(15) A front-page interview in the Wall Street Journal in May ("How Wall Street whiz finds niche selling books on the internet") proves a watershed moment.
(16) They know it is irrational but the money, the language, the whiz-bangs, the uniforms turn their heads and dazzle their minds.
(17) However, can the same company then also look over its shoulder at the upcoming digital whiz-kids, often emerging from unexpected places, such as Japanese social media platforms?
(18) His potential candidacy’s momentum began with a speech at the Iowa Freedom Caucus this January that many columnists and pundits described as “fiery” because Walker – a man who, to steal a phrase from Albert Burneko , is essentially wet bread – indicated emotions stronger than gee-whiz optimism for America or performative empathy for the struggling folks whose lives he labored to make more difficult.
(19) Everything about them - that they were the children of mixed-marriage vaudevillians, and performers themselves as genius whiz kids on a radio game show - was absolutely right; of course they were too perfect, with all their sensitivities, their Buddhism, their philosophical despair and their family bondings, but that's why we responded as we did.
(20) The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above.