Am I right that in pushing you place the hand on the person and then apply force, but in shoving you apply the force before making contact, resulting in a sort of mini-punch followed by a push?
Think of the Venn diagram. A shove is also a push, but a push is not a shove. Shove is probably etymologically similar to the Dutch "schuiven" and the German "schieben", which means "slide", so it has a meaning with relation to the body that the force is applied on. In this sense, you could say that a shove results in the other person significantly shifting their weight.
@s2numbuq35i said in #2:
> Think of the Venn diagram. A shove is also a push, but a push is not a shove. Shove is probably etymologically similar to the Dutch "schuiven" and the German "schieben", which means "slide", so it has a meaning with relation to the body that the force is applied on. In this sense, you could say that a shove results in the other person significantly shifting their weight.
So a shove is a push that is successfull in making the other person off-balance, possibly making them fall over?
If you want a hard rule, there isn't any, people use words differently. But yes, I think it transgresses from push to shove once the person being shoved needs make a step to rebalance. If they can keep standing without moving their feet, it's a push.
@s2numbuq35i said in #4:
> If you want a hard rule, there isn't any, people use words differently. But yes, I think it transgresses from push to shove once the person being shoved needs make a step to rebalance. If they can keep standing without moving their feet, it's a push.
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It's a matter of degree.
For example you can gently push someone away.
But you can't gently shove someone out of the way.
A shove is generally considered more aggressive than a push.
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The answer to your question might be best answered by @NM_MrShovwood.
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@Raspberry_yoghurt Hi! To answer your question, pushing and shoving both involve applying some force to an object or a person, but they differ in the way the force is applied. Pushing is a gentler way of applying force, where someone uses their hands to steadily apply pressure in a particular direction. Shoving, on the other hand, is more forceful, sudden, and violent in nature. It involves giving someone a quick, hard push with your hands or body. I hope that helps!
Yep, as dukedog has suggested, a push can be nice (a gentle guiding hand, for example), whereas a shove can't ever be well-intentioned (unless maybe you're really drunk).
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