🤚 To move away 🙌 To encourage strongly 🚀 To try hard 🛒 To promote forcefully ⚡ Energy or drive 💪 A forceful move 📲 To send data 🤰 To give birth 🎂 To approach age 🔔 Data delivery

push

31 4.2

A system where a server sends updates to devices without being asked

noun
/pʊʃ/

Specialized

: push

But the opportunity to go bigger with push messaging certainly has its rewards:
push technology
push-pull

Examples

All it took was the push of a button, and the time appeared, flooded in blue light.

Fiction book (1999)
All it is is a push of a button.

Fiction book (1996)
And with the push of a button, all the pieces were in play.

Confidence (2003)
Look, it gives me peace of mind to know that with just one push of a button, you can get help if you need it.

The War with Grandpa (2020)
Hence, what is the intention behind this push to produce commercial aircraft?

Academic text (1996)
But again, it's push notifications, so that's good.
BASH News just sent me eight push notifications.

Don't Look Up (2021)
The recorder has been designed to allow configurability from the front-panel push buttons and interactive program menu in six languages.

Academic text (1996)
The app uses a push notification system to keep users updated with the latest news.
With a single push, the system alerts users to important changes in their accounts.

Antonyms

to pull

∞ 1.0

To move something toward you using force, often to remove it

Idioms

to push the envelope

33 7.3

To try new ideas that go beyond accepted limits

push comes to shove

Informal

3 7.2

A situation that becomes serious and needs you to act

to push someone's buttons

Informal

1 7.1

To do or say something on purpose to annoy someone

to push it to the limit

Informal

1 7.2

Use all your energy and take big risks to test your skill

to push up daisies

Informal

1 8.9

To be dead and buried, often said as a joke

to push the boat out

1 8.7

Spend a lot of money for a special celebration

to push against an open door

Informal

6.6

To try to make something happen when it is already easy or people already agree

to push one's luck

Informal

6.8

To risk losing success by asking for more than is wise

to push water uphill

Informal

9.6

Try to do something that is very hard or impossible

to push under the carpet

7.3

To ignore or hide problems instead of dealing with them

Compounds

push button

1 1.9

A small switch you press with a finger to control a machine like a coffee maker or elevator

push-button

1 3.0

It works when you press a button

push broom

1 3.2

A wide cleaning tool with a long handle that you push to sweep floors

push-bike

1 2.7

A bicycle that you move by pedalling

push-button radio

1 3.5

A radio you change stations on by pressing preset buttons instead of turning a dial

push-button

1 4.1

Designers make it very simple so anyone can use it

bell push

4.6

A button on a door or wall you press to ring a bell at an entrance

push-down queue

Specialized

7.7

A pile where the last item put on is the first taken off

push-down stack

Specialized

6.0

A list where the last item added is the first removed

push-down storage

Specialized

7.8

A way to store items so the last one added is the first taken out

push-down store

Specialized

8.2

A storage where the last thing put in comes out first, like a pile of plates

push-button

2.2

A small switch that you press with a finger

push-down list

Specialized

7.5

A list where the last thing you put in comes out first

How Automatic

push

Specialized

31 4.2

subscription

Texting

68 2.9

polling

Specialized

33 5.1

request

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

push singular

pushes plural

Etymology

The noun push for a system that sends updates comes from the same idea as Old French pousser 'to push'. Think of the server giving a shove to deliver messages, which is why we call it a push system.