Definition of "push"

push¹

/pʊʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed
1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
2. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
  Quotations
  We are pushed for an answer.
  December 7, 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 18
  Ambition […] pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour and reputation to the actor.
  December 22, 1711, letter to The Spectator
3. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
  Quotations
  to push his fortune
  1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], stanza 133
4. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
  Quotations
  Earlier the premier had rejected outright suggestions, apparently being pushed by up to a third of the government’s 33-member caucus, that the government forget the deficit and launch a major public initiative to stimulate the economy.
  1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6
5. (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
  Quotations
  Don't think that if you keep pushing harder and harder, it will make you succeed faster or earn more.
  2016, JoAnneh Nagler, How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, page 91
6. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
  Quotations
  “I'm pushing 40 and on TikTok,” he says. “I feel old every day.”
  2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Jon Kung, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend‎, HTSI, page 77
7. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
8. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
9. To make a higher bid at an auction.
10. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
11. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
12. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
  Quotations
  When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
  1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47
13. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
  Quotations
  Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.
  2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968
14. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
  Quotations
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 21:32
15. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
16. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
noun
countable and uncountable, plural pushes
1. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
2. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
3. A great effort (to do something).
  Quotations
  The push to amend the Civil and Commercial Code on marriage is expected to enter parliament on Wednesday. The amendment would allow same-sex marriage […]
  2022 February 9, E. Parpart, N. Patanasophon, “Activists push for new ammendment that would give marital rights for all”, in Thai Enquirer‎, retrieved 2022-02-09
4. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
5. (figurative) A force that impels or pressures one to act.
  Quotations
  I guess it's justthe special curseof working underdeadline's push
  1984 April 7, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14
6. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
7. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
8. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
9. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
10. (slang, UK, obsolete, now chiefly Australia) A particular crowd or throng or people.
  Quotations
  Till some wild, excited personGalloped down the township cursing,"Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,Roll up, Dandaloo!"
  1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo
  My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane.
  1994, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 37
11. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
12. (professional wrestling slang) Giving momentum to a wrestler's career in the form of victories and/or more screen time.

push²

/pʊʃ/

noun
plural pushes
1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
  Quotations
  a Push rise upon his Nose
  1625, Francis Bacon, Of Praise

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