Definitions for Pushing
ˈpʊʃ ɪŋpush·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. push, pushingnoun

   the act of applying force in order to move something away

   "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pushingverb

   Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pushingadjective

   Enterprising; vigorous.

   Etymology: from push.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pushing

   of Push

2. Pushingadjective

   pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive

Matched Categories

1. • Propulsion

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Pushing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4177

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Pushing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2580

Anagrams for Pushing »

1. gunship

How to pronounce Pushing?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Pushing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pushing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pushing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Pushing in a Sentence

1. Longley Alley:

   Ironically, the conflict is encouraging the very relationship that Saudi Arabia fears, pushing the Houthis more into the Iranian camp, despite Tehran's reluctance to get more deeply involved.

2. Adriano Espaillat:

   We are pushing to bring an end to ICE as the agency has strayed too far from its original mission, intent and purpose, in the era of President President Trump, ICE has been granted an unlimited range to terrorize Latino communities around the country, regardless of citizenship or status.

3. Glenn Davis:

   WeWork is pushing the outer bounds of what's acceptable for a public company, the IPO filing indicates that the objective is to preserve incumbent control indefinitely.

4. Michelle Rodriguez:

   I'm going to celebrate him, and I'm going to celebrate everything that he represented about the celebration of life and the love of pushing life to its edge because there are individuals on this planet that can't live otherwise, they can't live ordinary lives cooped up hiding from danger and I'm one of those people and he was one of those people, fast Furious 7.

5. Pascal Lee:

   The desire to land humans at a location where they might be able to extract water ice from the ground has been pushing mission planners to consider higher latitude sites, but the latter environments are typically colder and more challenging for humans and robots. If there were equatorial locations where ice might be found at shallow depth, then we’d have the best of both environments: warmer conditions for human exploration and still access to ice.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Pushing
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pushing
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Pushing
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pushing