different between thrust vs incline

English

Etymology

From Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijan?, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

thrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)

1. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

2. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

3. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

4. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

Synonyms

• (push, stab, or lunge forward): break, dart, grab
• (force generated by propulsion): lift, push
• (primary effort or goal): focus, gist, point

Translations

Verb

thrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)

1. (intransitive) To make advance with force.

2. (transitive) To force something upon someone.

3. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

4. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
5. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero

     And thrust between my father and the god.

6. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

Synonyms

• (advance with force): attack, charge, rush
• (force upon someone): compel, charge, force
• (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully): dart, reach, stab

Translations

Anagrams

• 'struth, Hurtts, struth, thurst, truths

English

Alternative forms

• encline (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin incl?n? (“incline, tilt”), from in- + cl?n? (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (English lean).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?n
• (verb) enPR: ?nkl?n', IPA^(key): /?n?kla?n/
• (noun) enPR: ?n'kl?n, IPA^(key): /??n.kla?n/

Verb

incline (third-person singular simple present inclines, present participle inclining, simple past and past participle inclined)

1. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

2. (intransitive) To slope.

3. (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

   • 1966, J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170:

     The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters. […] Those who inclined to the stock-breeding theory based their arguments on the absence of ploughs, […].

Related terms

• inclination

Translations

Noun

incline (plural inclines)

1. A slope.

   To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.

Related terms

• climate
• cline
• decline
• recline

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• -nicline

French

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present indicative of incliner
2. third-person singular present indicative of incliner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of incliner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of incliner
5. second-person singular imperative of incliner

Galician

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar

Italian

Adjective

incline (plural inclini)

1. inclined, prone

   Synonyms: facile, propenso

Portuguese

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
3. third-person singular imperative of inclinar

Spanish

Verb

incline

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of inclinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of inclinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of inclinar.