Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RUSH

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Definitions of RUSH

1. 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.
2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. The merest trifle; a straw.
4. A wick.
5. A sudden forward motion.
6. A surge.
7. General haste.
8. A rapid, noisy flow.
9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
10. A placename
11. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
12. (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
13. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
14. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
15. (college slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
16. (college slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
17. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
18. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
19. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
20. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
21. (intransitive, football) To dribble rapidly.
22. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
23. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
24. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
25. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
26. (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
27. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
28. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
29. (transitive or intransitive, college slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
30. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
31. (intransitive, music) To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
32. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure, especially if therefore done badly.
33. A English surname from occupations for someone who made things from rushes.
34. (computing) A dialect of the programming language PL/I.

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Examples of Using RUSH in a Sentence

• In 1968, Lifeson co-founded a band that would later become Rush, with drummer John Rutsey and bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones.
• Within months of Victoria separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sparking the Victorian gold rush.
• The Eureka Rebellion was a series of events involving gold miners who revolted against the British administration of the colony of Victoria, Australia during the Victorian gold rush.
• The two share the same main attraction, "adrenaline rush" caused by an element of risk, and differ mostly in the degree of engagement and professionalism.
• "The Power of Love" (Jennifer Rush song) (1984), and notably covered by Air Supply (1985), Laura Branigan (1987), and Celine Dion (1993).
• Along with his Rush bandmates – guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart – Lee was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996.
• John Howard Rutsey (July 23, 1952 – May 11, 2008) was a Canadian musician best known as a founding member and original drummer of Rush.
• Sutter, however, saw his own business ventures fail during the California Gold Rush, though those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter Jr.
• Oklahoma is also known informally by its nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-owned lands until the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 authorized the Land Rush of 1889 opening the land to settlement.
• Their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim, and their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), was the first hip hop album to top The Village Voices Pazz & Jop critics' poll.
• Rush was a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto in 1968 that primarily comprised Geddy Lee (vocals, bass guitar, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion).
• Feminazi (also spelled femi-nazi and Femi-Nazi) is a pejorative term for feminists that was popularized by politically conservative American radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
• The longest river in Alaska and Yukon, it was one of the principal means of transportation during the 1896–1903 Klondike Gold Rush.
• The Witwatersrand Gold Rush caused a large influx of "foreigners" (Uitlanders) to the South African Republic (SAR), mostly British from the Cape Colony.
• Cimarron is a novel by Edna Ferber, published in April 1930 and based on development in Oklahoma after the Land Rush.
• The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.
• The city is a historic mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and came to be known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth".
• Due to the gold rush, Helena became a wealthy city, with approximately 50 millionaires inhabiting the area by 1888.
• The gold rush had severe effects on Native Californians and accelerated the Native American population's decline from disease, starvation, and the California genocide.
• The first semi-permanent European settlement to develop in the Dixon area emerged during the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century when the community of Silveyville was founded in 1852 by Elijah Silvey as a halfway point between the Pacific coast and the rich gold fields of Sacramento along a route commonly traveled by miners.
• He incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been those most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
• Berton was born on July 12, 1920, in Whitehorse, Yukon, where his father had moved for the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.
• During the 1850s, gold was discovered in Clunes and Buninyong in Ballarat in 1851, which was the start of the Victorian Gold Rush.
• Their productions occasionally incorporate the return to the live stage of famous Australian screen actors such as Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, etc.
• The Stockton Bar geologic feature separates Tooele Valley and Rush Valley, in which the towns of Stockton, Vernon, Faust, and Rush Valley are located.

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