Thrust vs. Tension

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

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

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

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

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

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

(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

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

(intransitive) To make advance with force.

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

(transitive) To force something upon someone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

Thrist.

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.

Example: ‘[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.’;

An attack; an assault.

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

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.

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

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.

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

To stab; to pierce; - usually with through.

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

To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

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

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

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

the force used in pushing;

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

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

Example: ‘one strong stab to the heart killed him’;

the act of applying force to propel something;

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

verbal criticism;

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

a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow);

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

push forcefully;

Example: ‘He thrust his chin forward’;

press or force;

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

make a thrusting forward movement

impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably;

Example: ‘She forced her diet fads on him’;

penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument

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

push upward;

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

place or put with great energy;

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

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.

The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.

Psychological state of being tense.

A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.

State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.

Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).

Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.

To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.

Example: ‘We tensioned the cable until it snapped.’;

The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.

The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.

The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.

The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.

feelings of hostility that are not manifest;

Example: ‘he could sense her latent hostility to him’; ‘the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions’;

(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense;

Example: ‘he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension’; ‘stress is a vasoconstrictor’;

the physical condition of being stretched or strained;

Example: ‘it places great tension on the leg muscles’; ‘he could feel the tenseness of her body’;

a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature);

Example: ‘there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time’; ‘there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history’;

(physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body;

Example: ‘the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear’;

the action of stretching something tight;

Example: ‘tension holds the belt in the pulleys’;