different between thrust vs onrush

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

Etymology

From on- +? rush. Compare Middle English onresen (“to rush upon; attack”), from Old English onr?san (“to rush, rush on”); Old English onr?s (“an onrush, assault, attack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n????/

Noun

onrush (plural onrushes)

1. A forceful rush or flow forward.
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857, First Book, pp. 32-33,^[1]

     The love within us and the love without

     Are mixed, confounded; if we are loved or love,

     We scarce distinguish. So, with other power.

     Being acted on and acting seem the same:

     In that first onrush of life’s chariot-wheels,

     We know not if the forests move or we.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 22,

     For a brief moment the onrush of the egwugwu [masked men representing ancestral spirits] was checked by the unexpected composure of the two men. But it was only a momentary check, like the tense silence between blasts of thunder. The second onrush was greater than the first. It swallowed up the two men.

   • 1987, Paul Goldberger, “A Baker’s Dozen of New York City’s Urban Masterpieces,” New York Times, 31 July, 1987,^[2]

     So persistent is the onrush of new construction in New York that the first temptation for the architecture buff is to track down the latest things, be they good or bad […]

2. An aggressive assault.

Synonyms

• onslaught

Translations

Verb

onrush (third-person singular simple present onrushes, present participle onrushing, simple past and past participle onrushed)

1. To rush or flow forward forcefully.
2. To assault aggressively.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hurons