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Thrust can be a verb or a noun.
thrust used as a verb:
- To make advance with force.
"We thrust at the enemy with our forces." - To force something upon someone.
"I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me." - To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
"He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
thrust used as a noun:
- An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
"Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought." - A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
"The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"" - The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
"Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void." - The primary effort; the goal.
"Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is thrust?
- Verb usage: We thrust at the enemy with our forces.
- Verb usage: I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.
- Verb usage: He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.
- Noun usage: Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
- Noun usage: The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
- Noun usage: Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
- Noun usage: Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of thrust are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of thrust, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
