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To apply energy so that something moves further in space.

Push (verb) means: To apply energy so that something moves further in space. It emerges from energy, motion, space: Energy acts on a thing in space, causing it to change place. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 11, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

push.action · forms: push, pushed, pushes, pushing

Emergence

from: energy motion space
through: Energy acts on a thing in space, causing it to change place.

Chain to foundations

motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.pushL11 push.action: To apply energy so that something moves further in space.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromnudgeL15nudge.drift-steer — Power that sets no wall but pushes where drift goes inside another's window, so its choices go one way without its modelpushL11push.action — To apply energy so that something moves further in space.energyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.

Used by (1)

nudgeL15

Relations

contrasts-withpress.forcepush implies motion; press may not
enableswork.effortpushing can be work

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6