push: betydelser og definitioner

To apply pressure against for the purpose of moving: push a shopping cart through the aisles of a market.

To move (an object) by exerting force against it; thrust or shove.

To force (one's way): We pushed our way through the crowd.

To urge forward or urge insistently; pressure: push a child to study harder.

To bear hard upon; press.

To exert downward pressure on (a button or keyboard, for example); press.

To extend or enlarge: push society past the frontier.

Informal To approach in age: is pushing 40 and still hasn't settled down.

Slang To promote or sell (a product): The author pushed her latest book by making appearances in bookstores.

Slang To sell (a narcotic) illegally: push drugs.

Sports To hit (a ball) in the direction toward the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the right of a right-handed player.

To exert outward pressure or force against something.

To advance despite difficulty or opposition; press forward.

To expend great or vigorous effort.

The act of pushing; thrust: gave the door a swift push.

A vigorous or insistent effort toward an end; a drive: a push to democracy.

A provocation to action; a stimulus.

Informal Persevering energy; enterprise.

push around Informal To treat or threaten to treat roughly; intimidate.

push off Informal To set out; depart: The infantry patrol pushed off before dawn.

push on To continue or proceed along one's way: The path was barely visible, but we pushed on.

push paper Informal To have one's time taken up by administrative, often seemingly petty, paperwork: spent the afternoon pushing paper for the boss.

push up daisies Slang To be dead and buried: a cemetery of heroes pushing up daisies.

when At a point when or if all else has been taken into account and matters must be confronted, one way or another: "We extol the virtues of motherhood and bestow praise on the self-sacrificing homemaker but when push comes to shove, we give her little recognition for what she does” ( Los Angeles Times).