rush vs tail

rush

noun
  • A sudden forward motion. 

  • 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, 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. 

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

  • To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily. 

  • 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. 

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

tail

noun
  • A tailing. 

  • All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on. 

  • A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style. 

  • Sexual intercourse. 

  • Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”) 

  • A train or company of attendants; a retinue. 

  • The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse. 

  • A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing. 

  • The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail. 

  • A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies. 

  • Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. 

  • One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. 

  • The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird. 

  • The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. 

  • The penis of a person or animal. 

  • The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. 

  • The distal tendon of a muscle. 

  • The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile. 

  • One who surreptitiously follows another. 

  • The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin. 

  • The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. 

  • The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers. 

  • The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y. 

  • The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage. 

  • The stern; the back of the kayak. 

  • The buttocks or backside. 

  • An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. 

  • The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind. 

  • A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. 

  • The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part. 

verb
  • To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into 

  • To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. 

  • To follow and observe surreptitiously. 

  • To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. 

  • To pull or draw by the tail. 

adj
  • Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed. 

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