different between rush vs glide

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: Rush
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysc, risc, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskij?, borrowed from Latin r?scum (“butcher's broom”) + *-j? (animal and plant suffix). Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. The merest trifle; a straw.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.

4. A wick.

Synonyms

• (plant of the genus Juncus): juncus

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrys?an (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-Germanic *hurskijan? (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run, hurry”).

Cognate with Old High German hurscan (“to speed, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. A sudden forward motion.
   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
2. A surge.

3. General haste.

4. A rapid, noisy flow.

5. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
6. (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

   Synonym: zerg

7. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

8. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.

9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

10. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

11. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
12. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
   • c. 1683, Robert West, The further Exmaination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple, Barrister at Law

     A party of men […] shoud be ready to rush out; and upon the noise of the first shot immediately run down to the Gate and break in.
2. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
3. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
4. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
5. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

6. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
7. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
8. (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

   Synonym: zerg

9. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
10. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

11. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
12. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush (hurry)

Derived terms

• downrush
• rushing

Translations

Adjective

rush (not comparable)

1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Usage notes

Used only before a noun.

See also

• rushes

Further reading

• Juncaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rush_(football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha or rushene)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rush” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English gliden, from Old English gl?dan, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??leyd?-.

Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??la?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode)

1. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
   • 1807, William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, in Poems, in Two Volumes (Sonnet 14):

     The river glideth at his own sweet will:

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI:

     The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
4. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

Synonyms

• (to move effortlessly): coast, slide

Translations

Noun

glide (plural glides)

1. The act of gliding.
2. (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.

   Synonyms: semivowel, semiconsonant

3. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
4. A bird, the glede or kite.
5. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
6. The joining of two sounds without a break.
7. A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.

Related terms

• glider
• gliding
• offglide, off-glide
• onglide, on-glide

Translations

Anagrams

• gelid, lidge, liged

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• glida (a infinitive)
• gli (short form)

Etymology

From Middle Low German gliden

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?li??/

Verb

glide (present tense glid, past tense gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)

1. to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)

2. to glide (to move effortlessly)

References

• “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Noun

glide

1. dative singular of glid

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gl?da, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lid?/, /??li?d?/

Verb

glide

1. to glide, to slide

Inflection

Further reading

• “glide”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011