different between urge vs bustle

English

Etymology

From Latin urge? (“urge”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

urge (plural urges)

1. A strong desire; an itch to do something.

Translations

Verb

urge (third-person singular simple present urges, present participle urging, simple past and past participle urged)

1. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
2. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
3. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
4. (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.

   • Man?? and for ever?? wretch?! what wouldst thou have?? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

5. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

7. (transitive) To press onward or forward.
8. (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Synonyms

• animate
• incite
• impel
• instigate
• stimulate
• encourage

Related terms

• urgent

Translations

See also

• surge

Anagrams

• Guer., Ruge, geru, grue, regu

French

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urger

Anagrams

• grue

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -urd?e

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urgere

Latin

Verb

urg?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of urge?

Portuguese

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urgir
2. second-person singular imperative of urgir

Spanish

Verb

urge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of urgir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of urgir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of urgir.

English

Etymology

From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) +? -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?s?l/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

bustle (countable and uncountable, plural bustles)

1. (countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

     we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence

2. (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
3. (historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

Derived terms

• hustle and bustle

Translations

Verb

bustle (third-person singular simple present bustles, present participle bustling, simple past and past participle bustled)

1. To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).

   The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
2. To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).

   The train station was bustling with commuters.

3. (transitive) To push around, to importune.
   • 1981, A. D. Hope, "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," A Book of Answers:

     Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.

Synonyms

• (to move busily): flit, hustle, scamper, scurry
• (to exhibit an energetic abundance): abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bluest, bluets, butles, sublet, subtle