Pushing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pushingPush button
A simple device resembling a button in form so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit as of an electric bell called also button...
Boost
To lift or push from behind one who is endeavoring to climb to push up hence to assist in overcoming obstacles or in making advancement...
doorbell
a bell or other sounding device actuated by a push button at an outer door the push button activating the bell alos the ringing of such a bell as I was in the shower and didnt hear the doorbell...
Shove
To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength to push especially to push a body so as to make it move along the surface of another body as to shove a boat on the water to shove a table across the floor...
rebut
rebut re·but·ted re·but·ting [Anglo-French reboter rebuter to answer a charge, bar from an action, literally, to repulse, rebuff, from Old French reboter, from re- back + boter to push, butt] : to refute, counteract, or disprove (as opposing evidence) by evidence or argument [ damaging testimony] [ a presumption] re·but·ta·ble adj re·but·ta·bly adv ...
brinkmanship
the policy or practise of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster to the limits of safety in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome used especially of diplomatic maneuvers in crisis situations and originally applied to the policies of John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower...
Bumptious
Self conceited forward pushing...
Capstan
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder revolving on an upright spindle and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers It is much used especially on shipboard for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable passing around the drum It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket...
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
An emergency procedure to revive heart and lung function in persons whose heart has apparently stopped beating involving forced respiration periodic pressure on the heart by pushing on the chest and sometimes electrical or mechanical equipment It is often referred to by the acronym CPR...
Crowd
To push to press to shove...
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