rush vs walk

rush

verb
  • To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily. 

  • To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play. 

  • To swiftly attack without warning. 

  • 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. 

  • To dribble rapidly. 

  • To hurry; to perform a task with great haste. 

  • To make a swift or sudden attack. 

  • To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn. 

  • To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process. 

  • To cause to move or act with unusual haste. 

  • To transport or carry quickly. 

  • To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units. 

noun
  • The merest trifle; a straw. 

  • A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush. 

  • The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc. 

  • A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities. 

  • A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn. 

  • The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play. 

  • General haste. 

  • A sudden attack; an onslaught. 

  • A surge. 

  • 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. 

  • A sudden forward motion. 

  • A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant. 

  • A wick. 

  • The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities. 

  • A rapid, noisy flow. 

adj
  • Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure. 

walk

verb
  • To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement). 

  • To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls. 

  • To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks. 

  • To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person. 

  • To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out. 

  • To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself. 

  • To leave, resign. 

  • To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting. 

  • To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in. 

  • To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation. 

  • To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. 

  • To take for a walk or accompany on a walk. 

  • Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. 

  • To travel (a distance) by walking. 

  • To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking. 

  • To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt. 

  • To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. 

noun
  • A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards. 

  • A distance walked. 

  • A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. 

  • Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park. 

  • A manner of walking; a person's style of walking. 

  • An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground. 

  • A trip made by walking. 

  • An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls". 

  • In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. 

  • A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting. 

  • An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. 

  • A person's conduct or course in life. 

  • An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees. 

  • A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. 

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