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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fault \Fault\, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the {fault plane}. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a {vertical fault}; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side the fault is a {normal}, or {gravity}, {fault}. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a {reverse} (or {reversed}), {thrust}, or {overthrust}, {fault}. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a {horizontal fault}. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the {displacement}; the vertical displacement is the {throw}; the horizontal displacement is the {heave}. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the {trend} of the fault. A fault is a {strike fault} when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a {dip fault} when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an {oblique fault} when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called {cross faults}. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called {step faults} and sometimes {distributive faults}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrust \Thrust\, n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.] --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr & vb n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through {To thrust away} or {from}, to push away to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in {To thrust off}, to push away {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} or {into}, to obtrude upon to intrude, as into a room to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.'' --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrust \Thrust\, v. i. 1. To make a push to attack with a pointed weapon; as a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. 2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in And thrust between my father and the god. --Dryden. 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on to intrude. ``Young, old thrust there in mighty concourse.'' --Chapman. {To thrust to}, to rush upon [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrust \Thrust\, n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More 3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them 4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. {Thrust bearing} (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. {Thrust plane} (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. Syn: Push shove; assault; attack. Usage: {Thrust}, {Push}, {Shove}. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often but not always implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: thrust n 1: the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines" [syn: {push}] 2: a thrusting blow with a knife [syn: {stab}, {knife thrust}] 3: the act of applying force to propel something "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn: {drive}, {driving force}] 4: verbal criticism; "he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians" 5: a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: {jab}, {jabbing}, {poke}, {poking}, {thrusting}] v 1: push forcefully; "He thrust his chin forward" 2: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: {stuff}, {shove}, {squeeze}] 3: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: {lunge}, {hurl}, {hurtle}] 4: impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" [syn: {force}] 5: penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument [syn: {pierce}] 6: push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air" [syn: {push up}]
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