different between thrash vs shove

English

Etymology

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)

1. To beat mercilessly.
2. To defeat utterly.
3. To thresh.
4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
   • c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,

     I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.

5. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
6. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Derived terms

• thrashel
• thrasher

Translations

Noun

thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)

1. (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
   • 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,

     As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
2. (music, uncountable) thrash metal

References

• (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.

Anagrams

• Harths, harths

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English thrash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr??/ (occasionally pronounced as [?????])
• Hyphenation: thrash

Noun

thrash m (uncountable)

1. (music) thrash metal, thrash

   Synonym: thrashmetal

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sc?fan, from Proto-Germanic *skeuban? (compare West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva), from Proto-Indo-European *skewb?- (compare Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skuba? ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose’).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?v, IPA^(key): /??v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
   • The ship was anon shoven in the sea.

2. (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

3. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

shove (plural shoves)

1. A rough push.

   • I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.

2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.
3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Derived terms

• ice shove
• when push comes to shove

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Verb

shove

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of shave

Anagrams

• hoves