Rush vs. Shift
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)
Shiftnoun
(historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
Shiftnoun
A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
Shiftnoun
An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
Shiftnoun
(US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
Shiftnoun
alternative spelling of Shift||a modifier button of computer keyboards.
Shiftnoun
(computing) A bit shift.
Shiftnoun
(baseball) The infield shift.
Shiftnoun
The act of kissing passionately.
Shiftnoun
(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
Shiftnoun
(archaic) A trick, an artifice.
Shiftnoun
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shiftnoun
(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shiftnoun
(genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
Shiftverb
(transitive) To change, swap.
Shiftverb
(transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
Shiftverb
(intransitive) To change position.
Shiftverb
To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
Shiftverb
(intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
Shiftverb
(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
Shiftverb
(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
Shiftverb
To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
Shiftverb
To remove the first value from an array.
Shiftverb
(transitive) To dispose of.
Shiftverb
(intransitive) To hurry.
Shiftverb
To engage in sexual petting.
Shiftverb
(archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Shiftverb
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
Shiftverb
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Shiftverb
To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
Shiftverb
To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
Shiftverb
To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
Shiftverb
To change the clothing of; - used reflexively.
Shiftverb
To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Shiftverb
To divide; to distribute.
Shiftverb
To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; - used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
Shiftverb
To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Shiftverb
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
Shiftverb
To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; - said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
Shiftnoun
The act of shifting.
Shiftnoun
Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
Shiftnoun
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
Shiftnoun
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shiftnoun
A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shiftnoun
A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
Shiftnoun
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
Shiftnoun
a qualitative change
Shiftnoun
the time period during which you are at work
Shiftnoun
the act of changing one thing or position for another;
Shiftnoun
the act of moving from one place to another;
Shiftnoun
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
Shiftnoun
a group of workers who work for a specific period of time
Shiftnoun
a woman's sleeveless undergarment
Shiftnoun
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
Shiftverb
make a shift in or exchange of;
Shiftverb
change place or direction;
Shiftverb
move around;
Shiftverb
move very slightly;
Shiftverb
move from one setting or context to another;
Shiftverb
change in quality;
Shiftverb
move and exchange for another;
Shiftverb
move sideways or in an unsteady way;
Shiftverb
move abruptly;
Shiftverb
use a shift key on a keyboard;
Shiftverb
change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change;
Shiftverb
change gears;
Shiftverb
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another;
Shiftverb
move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance
Shiftverb
change the position of one's body, especially because one is nervous or uncomfortable
Shiftverb
change the emphasis, direction, or focus of
Shiftverb
change in emphasis, direction, or focus
Shiftverb
move quickly
Shiftverb
move from a place or rouse oneself from a state of inactivity
Shiftverb
move (data) to the right or left in a register
Shiftverb
remove (a stain)
Shiftverb
sell (something)
Shiftverb
eat or drink (something) hastily or in large amounts.
Shiftverb
change gear in a vehicle
Shiftverb
be evasive or indirect
Shiftnoun
a slight change in position, direction, or tendency
Shiftnoun
the displacement of spectral lines.
Shiftnoun
a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard used to switch between two sets of characters or functions, principally between lower- and upper-case letters.
Shiftnoun
short for sound shift
Shiftnoun
the gear lever or gear-changing mechanism in a vehicle.
Shiftnoun
the positioning of successive rows of bricks so that their ends do not coincide.
Shiftnoun
a movement of the digits of a word in a register one or more places to left or right, equivalent to multiplying or dividing the corresponding number by a power of whatever number is the base.
Shiftnoun
a change of position by two or more players before the ball is put into play.
Shiftnoun
each of two or more recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same jobs in relay
Shiftnoun
the group of people who work during a particular shift
Shiftnoun
a woman's straight unwaisted dress.
Shiftnoun
a long, loose-fitting undergarment.
Shiftnoun
an ingenious or devious device or stratagem
