Dictionary entry
Thruster
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Definition
thrust /θrʌst/ v ( pt,pp thrust ) ၁။ ထိုး(ထည့္)သည္။ တိုး (ဝင္၊ ထြက္) သည္။ ေဘး(ထိုး)သည္။ thrust a tip into the waiter's hand ❍ He thrust (his way) through the crowd. ❍ ( fig ) My objections were thrust aside (ie dismissed). ❍ She tends to thrust herself forward too much (ie to assert herself too much). ၂။ ~ at sb (with sth)/~ sth at sb (လွံ၊ ဓား စသည္ျဖင့္) ထိုးသည္။ He thrust at me with a knife/ thrust a knife at me. n ၁။ [C] ထိုးခ်က္။ ထိုးသြင္းျခင္း။ killed by a bayonet thrust. ၂။ (က) ထိုးေဖာက္ျခင္း။ a deep thrust into the opponent's territory. ခ) ေဝဖန္ျခင္း။ ခြပ္ျခင္း။ ၃။ [U] (ဒံုးစက္၊ ဂ်က္အင္ဂ်င္ စသည္၏) ကန္အား။ ၄။ [U] ဆိုလိုရင္း။ What was the thrust of his argument? ❏ thrust sth/sb on/upon sb [ PHRV ] စိုင္ေကာ္လို႔ ခ်ံဳေပၚ ေရာက္သည္။ ဆြမ္းခံရင္း ငွက္သင့္သည္။ Some people have greatness thrust upon them (ie become famous without wishing or trying to be). ❍ She is rather annoyed at having three extra guests suddenly thrust on her. ❏ thruster n (အာကာသယာဥ္ကို လိုရာခိုင္းမက္ရန္) ဒံုးစက္ အငယ္စား။
Examples
- ‘A full paper bag was thrust at her
- and the door shut
- leaving her in stifled silence.’
- ‘I'm there again
- fighting at the bar for a drink and suddenly a hand is thrust in front of me.’
- ‘They wax garrulous when mikes are thrust at them
- and queue up
- or SMS furiously to get on to reality shows.’
- ‘Rae dropped his sword from tired
- numb fingers
- and he saw the Guardian's blade sail through the air as it was thrust at his chest.’
- ‘I shot him a look
- but was soon ambushed by a sheaf of papers being thrust at me.’
- ‘A black van pulled up
- badges were thrust at me after the door opened
- and I hopped in.’
- ‘Suddenly
- John is thrust into a whole new world of motion
- music
- camaraderie and passion.’
- ‘Burly Paddy
- who's at the helm
- suddenly thrusts a fishing rod into my hand.’
- ‘Suddenly being thrust on to the opposite side of the fence was something of a culture shock.’
- ‘It was only through the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936
- that
- suddenly
- she was thrust into the limelight
- and became our Queen.’
- ‘An empty
- demanding hand is thrust at us
- and we press money into it.’
- ‘He was living the rock and roll lifestyle
- going to endless parties where free champagne was thrust at him and he took advantage of it.’
- ‘Suddenly she thrust her fist forward and struck the wall.’
- ‘It was a woman photographer
- with dyed blonde hair showing from beneath her headscarf
- who thrust me most violently out of her way.’
- ‘Then the bowl is thrust at me with battered wooden chopsticks and a porcelain spoon.’
- ‘I've got a huge family and suddenly she has been thrust into the middle of this completely different way of life.’
- ‘He sounded rather quizzical and calm despite the equivalent of an Uzi being thrust at his throat.’
- ‘This endless cycle of doctors being thrust at you like hot bullets from a machine gun has far too much potential for deadly mishaps and malpractice.’
- ‘She gasped suddenly
- thrusting a hand to her head
- pushing back her styled hair abruptly and entangling her fingers in it.’
- ‘So how does such a creative
- quietly self-possessing group of young men handle the fame and fortune that has so suddenly been thrust upon them this year?’