push

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Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.

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Quick take

the act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of push gathered in one view.

noun

the act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise"

noun

the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"

noun

enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for push.

noun

the act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise"

noun

the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"

noun

enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy"

noun

an electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"

noun

an effort to advance; "the army made a push toward the sea"

verb

move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

verb

press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate"

verb

make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"

verb

strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

verb

press against forcefully without moving; "she pushed against the wall with all her strength"

verb

approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"

verb

exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"

See also: crusade, fight, press, campaign, agitate

verb

sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"

verb

move strenuously and with effort; "The crowd pushed forward"

verb

make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby; "`Now push hard,' said the doctor to the woman"

Example sentences

Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.

The price is that every once in a while we all have to push some people out.

But if you've never thought about a problem, 18 minutes may push you to do it.

Mandela reminds us that it's possible for a single man to create peace amidst a huge push for war.

Our senseless push to get kids to learn to code is like this senseless hyper-aggrandizing of the "creatives".

The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this.

Plus remember, Apple can push whatever software they want to your personal device.

So will I get a nastygram if I buy 10 of these and push the whole 1TB every month?Edit:So their AUP[1] is full of a lot of crappy policies.

Considering the costs of pushing you out, you'd have to be doing a hell of a lot more than just writing shit code to justify termination.

Starting in about 2004 there's been a huge push to increase monitoring of prisons, offenses, guard abuses, and to help parolees stay out of jail.

There is an interesting unbalance because Comcast has so much leverage by owning the last mile, they can push around Tier 1 providers.

But every drug or device or surgery needs someone to be first, and a few brave risk takers could both benefit their own health and push humanity forward.

The tech community might get its act together, give up all social causes and form some kind of committee or group to push for such amendments, but I seriously doubt it.

Indeed, GoT-broadcast-to-top-of-TPB time is counted in a couple of hours; so why do they try to push those technologies still?The answer is probably because the main goal of DRM is to control distribution channels, not copy-prevention.

Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!