Rush vs. Rust

Rushnoun

Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.

Rushnoun

The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.

Rushnoun

The merest trifle; a straw.

Rushnoun

A sudden forward motion.

Rushnoun

A surge.

Rushnoun

General haste.

Rushnoun

A rapid, noisy flow.

Rushnoun

(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.

Rushnoun

(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

Rushnoun

A rusher; a lineman.

Rushnoun

A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

Rushnoun

A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

Rushnoun

A perfect recitation.

Rushnoun

(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

Rushverb

To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.

Rushverb

(intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.

Rushverb

To dribble rapidly.

Rushverb

To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.

Rushverb

(transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

Rushverb

To make a swift or sudden attack.

Rushverb

(military) To swiftly attack without warning.

Rushverb

To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units; to zerg.

Rushverb

To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.

Rushverb

(transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

Rushverb

To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.

Rushverb

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Rushadjective

Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Rushnoun

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

Rushnoun

The merest trifle; a straw.

Rushnoun

A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

Rushnoun

Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

Rushnoun

A perfect recitation.

Rushnoun

A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

Rushverb

To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

Rushverb

To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

Rushverb

To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

Rushverb

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Rushnoun

the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;

Rushnoun

a sudden forceful flow

Rushnoun

grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

Rushnoun

physician and Revolutionary American leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

Rushnoun

the swift release of a store of affective force;

Rushnoun

a sudden burst of activity;

Rushnoun

(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line;

Rushverb

step on it;

Rushverb

attack suddenly

Rushverb

urge to an unnatural speed;

Rushverb

act or move at high speed;

Rushverb

run with the ball, in football

Rushverb

cause to move fast or to rush or race;

Rushverb

cause to occur rapidly;

Rushadjective

not accepting reservations

Rushadjective

done under pressure;

Rushverb

move with urgent haste

Rushverb

(of air or a liquid) flow strongly

Rushverb

act with great haste

Rushverb

force (someone) to act hastily

Rushverb

take (someone) somewhere with great haste

Rushverb

deliver (something) quickly to (someone)

Rushverb

produce and distribute something very quickly

Rushverb

deal with (something) hurriedly

Rushverb

dash towards (someone or something) in an attempt to attack or capture

Rushverb

advance towards (an opposing player, especially the quarterback)

Rushverb

run from scrimmage with the ball

Rushverb

entertain (a new student) in order to assess suitability for membership of a college fraternity or sorority.

Rushverb

(of a student) visit (a college fraternity or sorority) with a view to joining it

Rushverb

make (a customer) pay a particular amount, especially an excessive one

Rushnoun

a sudden quick movement towards something, typically by a number of people

Rushnoun

a sudden flow or flood

Rushnoun

a flurry of hasty activity

Rushnoun

a sudden strong demand for a commodity

Rushnoun

a sudden intense feeling

Rushnoun

a sudden thrill or feeling of euphoria such as experienced after taking certain drugs

Rushnoun

an act of advancing forward, especially towards the quarterback.

Rushnoun

the first prints made of a film after a period of shooting

Rushnoun

an erect, tufted marsh or waterside plant resembling a sedge or grass, with inconspicuous greenish or brownish flowers. Widely distributed in temperate areas, some kinds are used for matting, chair seats, and baskets.

Rushnoun

used in names of plants of wet habitats that are similar to rushes, e.g. flowering rush.

Rushnoun

a stem of a rush plant.

Rushnoun

rushes used as a material

Rushnoun

a thing of no value (used for emphasis)

Rustnoun

The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.

Rustnoun

A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust").

Rustnoun

A reddish-brown color.

Rustnoun

A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.

Rustverb

(intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.

Rustverb

(transitive) To cause to oxidize.

Rustverb

(intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.

Rustverb

To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.

Rustnoun

The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.

Rustnoun

A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.

Rustnoun

That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.

Rustverb

To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.

Rustverb

To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

Rustverb

To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

Rustverb

To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

Rustverb

To impair by time and inactivity.

Rustnoun

a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture

Rustnoun

a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems caused by a rust fungus

Rustnoun

the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water

Rustnoun

any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants

Rustverb

become destroyed by water, air, or an etching chemical such as an acid;

Rustverb

cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid;

Rustverb

become coated with oxide

Rustadjective

of the color of rust

Rust

Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture. Rust consists of hydrous iron(III) oxides (Fe2O3·nH2O) and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH), Fe(OH)3), and is typically associated with the corrosion of refined iron.