{
  "id": "push.action",
  "term": "push",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "domain": "physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "To apply energy so that something moves further in space.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "motion.movement",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "Energy acts on a thing in space, causing it to change place.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed force",
      "immediate movement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "press.force",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "push implies motion; press may not"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "pushing can be work"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "push",
    "pushed",
    "pushes",
    "pushing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-push.action"
}