Rush
[rʌʃ]
Definition
(noun.) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; 'the linebackers were ready to stop a rush'.
(noun.) a sudden burst of activity; 'come back after the rush'.
(noun.) a sudden forceful flow.
(noun.) physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813).
(noun.) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems.
(verb.) urge to an unnatural speed; 'Don't rush me, please!'.
(verb.) act or move at high speed; 'We have to rush!'; 'hurry--it's late!'.
(verb.) attack suddenly.
(verb.) move fast; 'He rushed down the hall to receive his guests'; 'The cars raced down the street'.
(verb.) run with the ball, in football.
(adj.) done under pressure; 'a rush job' .
Checked by Gregory--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
(n.) A perfect recitation.
(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
(n.) The act of running with the ball.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Straw (as of little worth), farthing, copper.[2]. Driving on, violent course.
v. n. Career, push on, press on.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Speed, course, dash, sweep, hurry, stream, roll, charge, drive, fly, burst
ANT:March, saunter, lag, retreat, bait, hesitate
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Definition
v.i. to move with a shaking rustling noise as the wind: to move forward violently: to enter rashly and hastily.—v.t. to drive: to push to secure by rushing.—n. a rushing or driving forward: an eager demand: urgent pressure as of business: a stampede of cattle: in football when a player forces his way by main strength.—n. Rush′er in football a player whose special duty it is to force the ball toward his opponents' goal: a go-ahead person.
n. a genus (Juncus) of marshy plants some absolutely destitute of leaves but with barren scapes resembling leaves: the name esp. of those species with no proper leaves the round stems known as rushes: a wick: the merest trifle.—n. Rush′-bear′ing a country feast when the parish church was strewn with rushes between haymaking and harvest: the day of the festival.—adj. Rush′-bott′omed having a seat or bottom made with rushes.—ns. Rush′-buck′ler (obs.) a swash-buckler; Rush′-can′dle -light a candle or night-light having a wick of rush-pith: a small feeble light.—adj. Rush′en made of rushes.—ns. Rush′-hold′er a clip-candlestick used for rush-lights; Rush′iness.—adj. Rush′-like resembling a rush: weak.—ns. Rush′-lil′y a plant of the species of blue-eyed grass; Rush′-nut the Cyperus esculentus whose tubers are eaten in southern Europe; Rush′-toad the natterjack.—adjs. Rush′y full of or made of rushes; Rush′y-fringed.—n. Rusk′ie any utensil made of straw &c. as a basket &c.—Flowering rush an aquatic plant; Marry with a rush to wed in jest.
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Examples
- There was a cry and a rush to rescue, but the right hand which all this while had lain hidden in Moore's breast, reappearing, held out a pistol. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When the bottle is nearly full, the operator quickly withdraws it with one hand, and having a cork ready in the other, he puts it in before the water can rush out. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then there was one that we did not hear coming until the sudden rush. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I was waiting at Granny's, and Ellen came alone, and said she had dropped you on the way because you had to rush off on business. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Tears rushed into my eyes; surely this was a wanton display of the power of the destroyer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He rushed across the glade, Holmes and I at his heels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He, for his part, rushed off to the school with the utmost happiness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A number of horses pasturing in the field rushed away at his approach, nor, though he called them loudly, did they pause in their wild career. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He scrambled to his feet and rushed toward her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Flinging the old man from him, he rushed from the room, and darted, wildly and furiously, up the stairs. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Horribly--especially when I see all my friends rushing to the steamer. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Again scampering devious, bounding here, rushing there, snuffing and sniffing everywhere; she at last discovered me in classe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We lived at the top of the last house, and the wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like discharges of cannon, or breakings of a sea. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Boats were putting off, torches were lighting up, people were rushing tumultuously to the water's edge. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And if I stopped by the way an instant, while others are rushing on, I should be trodden down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I tremble at the frightful danger into which our husbands, our friends, our brave troops and allies, are rushing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Open fireplaces are very healthful because the air which is driven out is impure, while the air which rushes in is fresh and brings oxygen to the human being. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The carriage thunders past, but what do I see, or fancy I see, as it rushes by? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She waits until her husband is asleep, and then she rushes down to endeavor to persuade them to leave her in peace. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A key is thrown in, which unlocks the door, and in a spasm of rapture he tears off his chains and rushes away to find and rescue his lady love. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), Old Orlick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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