English Dictionary

thruster

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/

名詞

One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs. / A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel). / (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.

日本語の意味

突く者、突進する者 / 推進装置（特に宇宙船や船舶などを推進するための装置） / 船首または船尾に設置される推進装置（特に舵を補助するもの）

The thruster lunged forward and drove his knife into the crate.

突き刺す者が前に突進し、ナイフを木箱に突き立てた。

意味（1）

One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.

Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces.

意味（2）

A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).

意味（3）

(nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.

意味（4）

(surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.

意味（5）

An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.

The executive is a thruster with ideas to expand or improve the business and his superiors fail to react—for whatever reason—and do not give acceptable explanations.

thrusters （ plural ）