push¹ /pŭsh/

1. To thrust or press against
2. To drive by pressure
3. To press or drive forward
4. To urge
5. To press hard
6. (of a plant) to produce (fruit, shoots, roots, etc)
7. To advance or carry to a further point
8. To hit (the ball) too much to the right for a right-handed player, or to the left for a left-handed player (golf)
9. To promote, or seek to promote, vigorously and persistently
10. To make efforts to promote the sale of
11. To effect by thrusting forward
12. To peddle (drugs)
13. To come near, be approaching (an age or number)
14. To insert (data) on to a stack (computing)

1. To make a thrust
2. To butt (obsolete)
3. To exert pressure
4. To make an effort
5. To press forward
6. To make one's way by exertion
7. To reach out
8. To be urgent and persistent
9. To play a push-stroke

1. A thrust
2. An impulse
3. Pressure
4. A help to advancement
5. Enterprising or aggressive pertinacity
6. An effort
7. An onset
8. An offensive
9. A push-stroke
10. A shot hit too much to the right for a right-handed player, or to the left for a left-handed player (golf)
11. A gang of roughs (Aust)
12. A group of people sharing an interest or background (Aust)
13. A company
14. (with the) dismissal or rejection (informal)

pushed adjective (informal)

1. In a hurry
2. Short of money

pushˈer noun

1. Someone who pushes
2. A machine, or part of a machine, that pushes
3. A propeller placed behind the wing of an aircraft
4. An aeroplane propelled by such a propeller
5. A child's table implement, or a finger of bread, used for pushing food onto a fork or spoon
6. The stick used to propel the puck in the game of octopush (qv)
7. A self-assertive person
8. Someone who assiduously seeks social advancement
9. A drug dealer

pushˈful adjective

Energetically or aggressively enterprising

pushˈfully adverb

pushˈfulness noun

pushˈiness noun

pushˈing adjective

1. Pressing forward eg in business
2. Enterprising
3. Self-assertive

pushˈingly adverb

pushˈy adjective

1. Aggressive
2. Self-assertive, esp obtrusively so

pushˈback noun

Resistance to a proposed course of action

pushˈ-ball noun

A game in which an enormous ball is pushed

pushˈbike noun

(also, esp formerly pushˈ-bicycle or pushˈ-cycle) a bicycle driven by pedals

pushˈ-button noun

A knob, eg on a doorbell or a vending machine, which when pressed causes the bell, vending machine, etc to operate

adjective

Operated by, or using, a push-button or push-buttons

push-button civilization noun

One in which the ordinary unskilled person has the benefits of technology at the pressing of a button

push-button war noun

One carried on by guided missiles, released by push-button

pushˈ-cart noun (US)

A street vendor's barrow

pushˈchair noun

A lightweight wheeled folding chair for conveying a baby or child

push-cycle see pushbike above.

push fit noun

A joint (as between two pipes) made by pushing one part into another

pushˈ-off noun

1. The act of pushing a boat off from the shore, etc, or, in swimming, of pushing oneself off the end of the pool in turning
2. A send-off

pushˈ-out noun

The act of pushing (someone or something) out, eg of pushing an opponent out of the ring in some forms of wrestling

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