Foist vs. Thrust

Foistverb

(transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

Thrustnoun

(fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

‘Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.’;

Foistverb

(transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.

Thrustnoun

A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

‘The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"’;

Foistverb

(transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.

Thrustnoun

The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

‘Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.’;

Foistnoun

A thief or pickpocket.

Thrustnoun

(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

‘Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.’;

Foistnoun

(obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.

Thrustverb

(intransitive) To make advance with force.

‘We thrust at the enemy with our forces.’;

Foistnoun

(obsolete) A cask for wine.

Thrustverb

(transitive) To force something upon someone.

‘I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.’;

Foistnoun

Fustiness; mustiness.

Thrustverb

(transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.

‘He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.’;

Foistnoun

A light and fast-sailing ship.

Thrustverb

(transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.

‘to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument’;

Foistnoun

A foister; a sharper.

Thrustverb

(intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

Foistnoun

A trick or fraud; a swindle.

Thrustverb

To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

Foistverb

To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; - usually followed by in.

‘Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption.’; ‘When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in.’;

Thrustnoun

Thrist.

Foistverb

to force onto another;

‘He foisted his work on me’;

Thrustnoun

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.’;

Foistverb

insert surreptitiously or without warrant

Thrustnoun

An attack; an assault.

‘One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.’;

Thrustnoun

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.

Thrustnoun

The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Thrustverb

To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

‘Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.’;

Thrustverb

To stab; to pierce; - usually with through.

Thrustverb

To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

Thrustverb

To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

‘And thrust between my father and the god.’;

Thrustverb

To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.

‘As doth an eager houndThrust to an hind within some covert glade.’;

Thrustnoun

the force used in pushing;

‘the push of the water on the walls of the tank’; ‘the thrust of the jet engines’;

Thrustnoun

a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument;

‘one strong stab to the heart killed him’;

Thrustnoun

the act of applying force to propel something;

‘after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off’;

Thrustnoun

verbal criticism;

‘he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians’;

Thrustnoun

a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow);

‘he warned me with a jab with his finger’; ‘he made a thrusting motion with his fist’;

Thrustverb

push forcefully;

‘He thrust his chin forward’;

Thrustverb

press or force;

‘Stuff money into an envelope’; ‘She thrust the letter into his hand’;

Thrustverb

make a thrusting forward movement

Thrustverb

impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably;

‘She forced her diet fads on him’;

Thrustverb

penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument

Thrustverb

geology: thrust (molten rock) into pre-existing rock

Thrustverb

push upward;

‘The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air’;

Thrustverb

place or put with great energy;

‘She threw the blanket around the child’; ‘thrust the money in the hands of the beggar’;

Thrust

Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction, the accelerated mass will cause a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction to be applied to that system.