rush vs track

rush

verb
  • To transport or carry quickly. 

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

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

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. 

track

verb
  • To tow. 

  • To create music using tracker software. 

  • To make sense; to be consistent with known information 

  • To monitor the movement of a person or object. 

  • To traverse; to move across. 

  • To create a musical recording (a track). 

  • To exhibit good cognitive function. 

  • To discover the location of a person or object by following traces. 

  • To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks. 

  • To match the movement or change of a person or object. 

  • To travel so that a moving object remains in shot. 

  • To follow the tracks of. 

  • To move. 

  • To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. 

noun
  • A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc. 

  • The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree. 

  • Physical course; way. 

  • The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. 

  • The pitch. 

  • A road or other similar beaten path. 

  • The direction and progress of someone or something; path. 

  • Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring. 

  • A tract or area, such as of land. 

  • A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence. 

  • The street, as a prostitute's place of work. 

  • A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors. 

  • A themed set of talks within a conference. 

  • A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. 

  • The way or rails along which a train moves. 

  • Sound stored on a record. 

  • The physical track on a record. 

  • A mark left by something that has passed along. 

  • The racing events of track and field; track and field in general. 

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