Reed vs. Rush
By Muazma Batool — Published on February 26, 2023
Difference Between Reed and Rush
◉Reed
Any of various tall perennial grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, having hollow stems and large plumelike panicles and growing in wetlands.
Muazma Batool◉Rush
To make a sudden or swift attack or charge
The cavalry rushed down upon the encampment.
◉Rush
(Football) To advance the ball or attempt to advance the ball from scrimmage by carrying it rather than passing.
◉Reed
A flexible strip of cane or metal set into the mouthpiece or air opening of certain instruments to produce tone by vibrating in response to a stream of air.
◉Reed
A narrow movable frame fitted with reed or metal strips that separate the warp threads in weaving.
◉Rush
To attack swiftly and suddenly
Infantry rushed the enemy after the artillery barrage.
◉Reed
(countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
◉Reed
Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
◉Rush
(Football) To run toward (a passer or kicker) in order to block or disrupt a play.
◉Reed
A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
◉Reed
A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
◉Reed
(mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
◉Reed
A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
◉Rush
A drive by a Greek society on a college campus to recruit new members
a sorority rush.
◉Rush
A sudden, brief exhilaration
felt a heady rush when her name was called out as the winner.
◉Rush
The intensely pleasurable sensation experienced immediately after use of a stimulant or a mind-altering drug.
◉Rush
Any of various grasslike wetland plants of the genus Juncus, having stiff hollow or pithy stems and small usually clustered brownish flowers.
◉Reed
A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
◉Reed
A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reedOf Hermes.
◉Rush
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.
◉Reed
A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
◉Reed
A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
◉Reed
tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
◉Rush
A surge.
A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume.
◉Reed
United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
◉Reed
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
◉Reed
a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it;
the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece
◉Rush
(video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
◉Rush
(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
a rush on the quarterback
◉Rush
A rusher; a lineman.
the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line
◉Rush
A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
The rollercoaster gave me a rush.
◉Rush
(college slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
rush week
◉Rush
(college slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
◉Rush
(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
◉Rush
To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
rush one's dinner;
rush off an email response
◉Rush
(intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
armies rush to battle;
waters rush down a precipice.
◉Rush
(transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
Don't rush your client or he may withdraw.
◉Rush
(transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.
◉Rush
To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
◉Rush
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.
◉Rush
Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
a rush job
◉Rush
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
◉Rush
A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
◉Rush
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
◉Rush
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
Like to an entered tide, they all rush by.
◉Rush
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
They . . . never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
◉Rush
the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;
in his haste to leave he forgot his book
◉Rush
physician and Revolutionary American leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)
◉Rush
the swift release of a store of affective force;
they got a great bang out of it
what a boot!
he got a quick rush from injecting heroin
he does it for kicks
◉Rush
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line;
the linebackers were ready to stop a rush
◉Rush
step on it;
He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
The cars raced down the street
◉Rush
cause to move fast or to rush or race;
The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze
◉Rush
cause to occur rapidly;
the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions
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