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push

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1. push - Noun

2. push - Verb

3. Push - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. Christa McAuliffe

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

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Denis Diderot

You can't push on a rope. Persian Proverb

Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. Madagascan Proverb

"Give me a push from my back" does not mean give me a hunchback. Nigerian Proverb

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