What's the difference between speed and thrust?

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.

Thrust


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) Thrist.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Thrust
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
  • (v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
  • (v. i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
  • (v. i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) An attack; an assault.
  • (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.
  • (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
  • (2) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (3) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
  • (4) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
  • (5) Some CTLs contacted infected cells via numerous interdigitating processes; others were observed thrusting finger-like protrusions deep into the target cell; some were seen with their plasma membranes lying closely opposed to that of the infected cell.
  • (6) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
  • (7) On the other hand, the values of the instantaneous frequency, duration, and rhythmicity of the copulatory thrusting movements performed during mounts, intromissions or ejaculations did not differ significantly from the values obtained under saline treatment.
  • (8) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
  • (9) Yet the central thrust of his work is that disaster is not always an entirely negative experience.
  • (10) Mervyn King gave his strong backing today for spending cuts in George Osborne's first budget as the coalition government revealed the broad thrust of the emergency package due within 50 days of last week's election.
  • (11) McAlpine, one of Baroness Thatcher's closest aides during her time in Downing Street, had been retired from public life for some years when he was thrust back into the limelight over a poorly researched Newsnight investigation in 2012 .
  • (12) She’s a normal girl thrust into extraordinary circumstances, so it’s very relatable.” Ridley’s leap from bit parts in British TV dramas to the biggest film franchise in the world is a legitimate overnight success.
  • (13) It should thus be emphasized that the major thrust of activities in periodontal care should be in health promotion and education, leading to improved oral hygiene.
  • (14) His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face .
  • (15) Rudd goes to mingle in the crowds, a cool bottle of XXXX thrust into his hands.
  • (16) Photograph: Multnomah County Sandra Anderson was thrust into the national spotlight during the final 24 hours of the standoff as she refused to surrender and made bold statements during live-streamed phone calls as the FBI closed in on the holdouts .
  • (17) Rats were trained to thrust their heads into a compartment flushed by a gas mixture of high or low O2 (balance N2), and after a timed interval, to enter the compartment (on high O2) for a reward or to withdraw (on low O2) to avoid a punishment.
  • (18) However, the use of a structured and systematic approach to patient care such as Advanced Trauma Life Support would have given those thrust into trauma care a format to build upon.
  • (19) Letta was thrust aside by the brash, ambitious Renzi just as Italy began to show signs of growth and bond market investors appeared less concerned over the country’s ability to repay its debts.
  • (20) "It seems to me that we have really got to look at the environment and make it easier for people either to make the healthy choice or – what we say less often is stop undermining their efforts by thrusting the unhealthy option into their line of sight," she said.