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   Thrust
   Thrust is slang for amyl nitrate (or any associated inhalant drug).
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   thrust
   [n] - verbal criticism 2. [v] - push upward 3. [v] - press or force 4. [v] - push forcefully
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   Thrust
   A thrust is a low angle fault that forms during periods of mountain building. The thrust at Knockan Crag is known as the Moine Thrust after the Moine schists, which were pushed about 70kms westwards to lie on top of the Durness limestone. This happened between 430 million and 400 million years ago when the land masses that we now call Scotland and ...
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   Thrust
   A type of stage which projects out into the auditorium and has audience seated on three sides.
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   Thrust
   The force exerted in any direction by a fluid jet. See also: Force, Propulsion, Rocket, Thrusters.
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   Thrust
   an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point
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   Thrust
   The force exerted by a propeller along its thrustline.
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   thrust
   thrust is taken to mean the product of the exhaust mass flow per second and the difference between the exhaust velocity and the air inlet velocity Category: Mechanical engineering • any compressive force acting on a body in the direction of its axis Category: Physics • force exerted by the propulsive system Category: Transport
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   Thrust
   Thrust noun & v. Thrist. [ Obsolete] Spenser.
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    Thrust
    Thrust transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Thrust ; present participle & verbal noun Thrusting .] [ Middle English ...rusten , ...risten , ...resten , Icelandic ...r...st... to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to English threat .] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive ...
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    Thrust
    Thrust intransitive verb 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. 2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. « And thrust between my father and the god.» Dryden. 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. 'Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.' Chapma ...
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    Thrust
    Thrust noun 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. « [ Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.» Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. « One thrust at ...
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    thrust
    1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; a word much used as a term of fencing. '[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.' (Dryden) ... 2. An attack; an assault. 'One thrust at your pure, pretended ...
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    thrust
    noun verbal criticism; `he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians`
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    thrust
    shove 1 squeeze verb press or force; `Stuff money into an envelope`; `She thrust the letter into his hand`
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    thrust
    driving force noun the act of applying force to propel something; `after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off`
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    Thrust
    `Thrust` is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's Second and Third Laws. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction the accelerated mass will cause a proportional but opposite force on that system.
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    Thrust
    • (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. • (imp. & p. p.) of Thrust • (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. • (v. i.) To make...
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    thrust
    (from the article `arch`) ...of forcing the voussoirs together instead of apart. These stresses also tend to squeeze the blocks outward radially; loads divert these outward ...
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    thrust
    (from the article `aerospace industry`) There are three basic types of flight vehicle-propulsion systems: piston engines (or reciprocating engines), turbine engines (true-jet, turboprop, ... ...usually composed of three gyroscopically stabilized accelerometers mounted at right angles to one another. By calculating the acceleration ... ...
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    Thrust
    Force produced by a rocket motor by the efflux of matter at high velocity.
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    thrust
    
    1. the force used in pushing
    2. the act of applying force to propel something
    3. verbal criticism
    4. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
    
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    Thrust
    The horizontal component of a reaction or an outward horizontal force.
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    Thrust
    In a centrifugal pump it refers to the axial movement of the shaft. The thrust can be towards the wet or power end of the pump and at start up it thrusts in both directions.
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    thrust
    1. (Rocketry). The forward force generated by a rocket. Thrust is produced by the expulsion of a reaction mass, such as the hot gas products of a chemical reaction. In an optimum situation (see below), thrust equals the product of the mass expelled from the rocket in unit time (the propellant mass...
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