push
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Is push a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.Examples: "In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me."; "You need to push quite hard to get this door open."Synonyms: press, shove, thring, thrutchAntonyms: draw, pull, tugintransitivetransitive
2. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.Examples: "We are pushed for an answer."; "December 22, 1711, letter to The Spectator Ambition […] pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour and reputation to the actor."Synonyms: press, urge, abet, actuate, goose, send, sting, bring abouttransitive
3. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.Examples: "to push an objection too far; to push one's luck"; "to push his fortune"Synonyms: drive, forcetransitive
4. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).Examples: "Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested."; "They're pushing that perfume again."; "There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs."Synonyms: advertise, promotetransitive
5. (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.Examples: "Don't think that if you keep pushing harder and harder, it will make you succeed faster or earn more."intransitive
6. (informal, transitive, usually in present participle) To approach; to come close to.Examples: "My old car is pushing 250,000 miles."; "He's pushing sixty."; "Don't be mad at me 'cause you're pushing thirty / And your old tricks no longer work"Synonyms: approach, nearinformalparticiplepresentregionaltransitive
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A force that impels or pressures one to act.Examples: "I guess it's just the special curse of working under deadline's push"countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.countableuncountable
3. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.countableuncountable
4. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.Examples: "server push; a push technology"Internetuncountable
5. (slang, UK, obsolete, now chiefly Australia) A particular crowd or throng or people.Examples: "Till some wild, excited person Galloped down the township cursing, "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson, Roll up, Dandaloo!""; "My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane."AustraliaUKcountableobsoleteslanguncountable
6. (snooker) A push shot.countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.Examples: "a Push rise upon his Nose"UKdialectalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary