Rush
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
The merest trifle; a straw.
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
A perfect recitation.
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
The act of running with the ball.
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Rush Quotations
We have time, there's no big rush.
Jimi Hendrix
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Rush Translations
rush in Afrikaans is gou maak, haas
rush in Danish is skynde sig
rush in Dutch is spoed maken, voortmaken, haast maken
rush in German is hetzen, Andrang {m}, Eile {f}
rush in Italian is affiuenza, furia, spingere, smaniare, pigiare
rush in Latin is vado, impetus
rush in Portuguese is arremetidas
rush in Spanish is apresurar, acosar, cesped, presura, afluencia
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