Definition of Push

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Definition of Push

Push

A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang.

A pustule; a pimple.

To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

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Push Quotations

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan

Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
Mitch Hedberg

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Why do you all push us around?
Rosa Parks

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock

Sometimes - history needs a push.
Vladimir Lenin

Push Translations

push in Dutch is aanduwen
push in French is poussons, poussez, poussent, buter, acculer
push in Italian is urtare, pigiare, spingere, spingere, folata
push in Latin is pulsus
push in Portuguese is impulso

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