Thruster

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

1. ‘A full paper bag was thrust at her
2. and the door shut
3. leaving her in stifled silence.’
4. ‘I'm there again
5. fighting at the bar for a drink and suddenly a hand is thrust in front of me.’
6. ‘They wax garrulous when mikes are thrust at them
7. and queue up
8. or SMS furiously to get on to reality shows.’
9. ‘Rae dropped his sword from tired
10. numb fingers
11. and he saw the Guardian's blade sail through the air as it was thrust at his chest.’
12. ‘I shot him a look
13. but was soon ambushed by a sheaf of papers being thrust at me.’
14. ‘A black van pulled up
15. badges were thrust at me after the door opened
16. and I hopped in.’
17. ‘Suddenly
18. John is thrust into a whole new world of motion
19. music
20. camaraderie and passion.’
21. ‘Burly Paddy
22. who's at the helm
23. suddenly thrusts a fishing rod into my hand.’
24. ‘Suddenly being thrust on to the opposite side of the fence was something of a culture shock.’
25. ‘It was only through the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936
26. that
27. suddenly
28. she was thrust into the limelight
29. and became our Queen.’
30. ‘An empty
31. demanding hand is thrust at us
32. and we press money into it.’
33. ‘He was living the rock and roll lifestyle
34. going to endless parties where free champagne was thrust at him and he took advantage of it.’
35. ‘Suddenly she thrust her fist forward and struck the wall.’
36. ‘It was a woman photographer
37. with dyed blonde hair showing from beneath her headscarf
38. who thrust me most violently out of her way.’
39. ‘Then the bowl is thrust at me with battered wooden chopsticks and a porcelain spoon.’
40. ‘I've got a huge family and suddenly she has been thrust into the middle of this completely different way of life.’
41. ‘He sounded rather quizzical and calm despite the equivalent of an Uzi being thrust at his throat.’
42. ‘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.’
43. ‘She gasped suddenly
44. thrusting a hand to her head
45. pushing back her styled hair abruptly and entangling her fingers in it.’
46. ‘So how does such a creative
47. quietly self-possessing group of young men handle the fame and fortune that has so suddenly been thrust upon them this year?’