Shove : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Shove	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Shove
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shove n the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove" v come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train" Synonym(s): jostle, shove push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line" press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" Synonym(s): thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shove \Shove\, n. The act of shoving; a forcible push. I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove. --Swift. Syn: See {Thrust}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shove \Shove\, v. i. 1. To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling. 2. To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off. He grasped the oar, eceived his guests on board, and shoved from shore. --Garth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shove \Shove\ (sh[ucr]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shoved} (sh[ucr]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoving}.] [OE. shoven, AS. scofian, fr. sc[umac]fan; akin to OFries. sk[umac]va, D. schuiven, G. schieben, OHG. scioban, Icel. sk[umac]fa, sk[ymac]fa, Sw. skuffa, Dan. skuffe, Goth. afskiuban to put away, cast away; cf. Skr. kshubh to become agitated, to quake, Lith. skubrus quick, skubinti to hasten. [root]160. Cf. {Sheaf} a bundle of stalks, {Scoop}, {Scuffle}.] 1. 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. 2. To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle. And shove away the worthy bidden guest. --Milton. He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants. --Arbuthnot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shove \Shove\, obs. p. p. of {Shove}. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spout \Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See {Spout}, v. t.] 1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. --Addison. [bd]A conduit with three issuing spouts.[b8] --Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. --Pope. 2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle. 3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. {To put}, {shove}, [or] {pop}, {up the spout}, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]