different between require vs push

English

Etymology

From Old French requerre (French: requérir), from Vulgar Latin *requærere, from Latin requ?r? (“I require, seek, ask for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???kwa??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???kwa??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: re?quire

Verb

require (third-person singular simple present requires, present participle requiring, simple past and past participle required)

1. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14^th-17^thc.]

   • I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.

   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Mark V:

     I requyre the in the name of god, that thou torment me nott.

2. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:

     "I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."

   • 2009, Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 29 December:

     ‘Regrettably, I have concluded, after considering the matter over Christmas […], that I can no longer maintain the high standard of service I require of myself, meet the demands of office and cope with the pressures of public life, without my health deteriorating further.’

3. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:

     Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.

   • 2009, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 7 February:

     A weapon small enough to put on a missile would require uranium enriched to more than 90% U-235.

4. To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18^thc.]
   • 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:

     After Aug 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi.

   • 2007, Allegra Stratton, "Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK", The Guardian, 5 December:

     The government would like to require non-British fiances who wish to marry a British citizen to sit an English test.

Synonyms

• call for

Related terms

• requirement
• requisite
• request

Translations

Further reading

• require in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• require in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• require at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• querier

Interlingua

Verb

require

1. present of requirer
2. imperative of requirer

Latin

Verb

requ?re

1. second-person singular present active imperative of requ?r?

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare, frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike". Doublet of pulsate. Displaced native Middle English thrucchen ("to push"; > Modern English thrutch) (from Old English þryccan (“to push”)), Middle English scauten (“to push, thrust”) (from Old Norse skota), Middle English thuden, thudden (“to push, press, thrust”) (from Old English þ?dan, þyddan (“to thrust, press, push”)). Partially displaced Middle English schoven (“to push, shove”) (from Old English scofian), Middle English schuven (“to shove, push”) (from Old English sc?fan, sc?ofan (“to shove, push, thrust”))

Pronunciation

• enPR: po?osh, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Appalachian) IPA^(key): [pu?]
• IPA^(key): [p???]
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

push (third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

2. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
   • December 7, 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 18

     We are pushed for an answer.

   • December 22, 1711, letter to The Spectator

     Ambition […] pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour and reputation to the actor.

3. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.

   • to push his fortune

4. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

5. (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
6. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.

   (= he's nearly sixty years old)

7. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

8. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
9. To make a higher bid at an auction.
10. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
11. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
12. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
13. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
14. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

    • If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, […] the ox shall be stoned.

15. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
16. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).

Synonyms

• (transitive: apply a force to (an object) so it moves away): press, shove, thrutch
• (continue to attempt to persuade): press, urge
• (continue to promote): press, advertise, promote
• (come close to): approach, near
• (intransitive: apply force to an object so that it moves away): press, shove, thring
• (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents): bear down

Antonyms

• (apply a force to something so it moves away): draw, pull, tug
• (put onto a stack): pop

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• pedal pushers
• push it

Translations

Noun

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

1. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

2. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

3. A great effort (to do something).

4. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
5. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
6. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
7. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
8. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.

9. (slang, Britain, obsolete, now chiefly Australia) A particular crowd or throng or people.
   • 1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo

     Till some wild, excited person

     Galloped down the township cursing,

     "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,

     Roll up, Dandaloo!"

   • 1994, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 37:

     My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane.

10. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time

Derived terms

• give someone the push
• push factor

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably French poche. See pouch.

Pronunciation

Noun

push (plural pushes)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
   • Template:RQ:Bacon Of Praise

     a Push rise upon his Nose

References

• push in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• push at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• PHUs, Phus, shup

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *puša, from *puksja, from Proto-Indo-European *pewk- (“covered with hair, bushy”). Related to Sanskrit ????? (púccha, “tail”), Proto-Slavic *pux? (“down”).

Noun

push m (indefinite plural pusha, definite singular pushi, definite plural pushat)

1. light hair, fluff, down, nap, pile

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