Crossword-Solution: PERCUSSION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Percussion | n. | The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report. |
| Percussion | n. | Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear. |
| Percussion | n. | The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERCUSSION | anagram | COINPURSES, CROUPINESS, SUPERSONIC |
We have 19 clues for the answer “PERCUSSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FORCIBLE striking of one body against another | 1 answer |
| the act of striking; musical instruments as drums, etc, sounded by being struck | 1 answer |
| tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | 1 answer |
| Triangle, bells, etc. | 1 answer |
| Rhythmic backbone of an orchestra | 1 answer |
| Section played by striking, shaking, or scraping | 1 answer |
| Instrument family including drums, cymbals, and xylophones | 1 answer |
| Anagram of SUPERSONIC | 1 answer |
| adodo | 2 answers |
| afuché | 2 answers |
| balafon | 2 answers |
| amadinda | 3 answers |
| MUSICAL instrument category | 3 answers |
| angklung | 3 answers |
| MASSAGE technique | 6 answers |
| Orchestra section | 15 answers |
| Collision | 26 answers |
| Kitchen | 43 answers |
| Impact | 52 answers |
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Sentences with PERCUSSION (5)
Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
This night they shelled us again heavily for some hours--the same shorts, hits, overs on percussion, and great yellow-green air bursts.
Striking through the thought of his dear ones was sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality.
Nay, some have been so curious, as to note, that the times when the stroke or percussion of an envious eye doth most hurt, are when the party envied is beheld in glory or triumph; for that sets an edge upon envy: and besides, at such times the spirits of the person envied, do come forth most into the outward parts, and so meet the blow.
The "growth" was rounded, dull on percussion, and looked as if an exploratory incision or puncture would be advisable for diagnosis.
Quotes with PERCUSSION (3)
We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconscious that inhabits us, that guides us, that influences our life and of which we don’t know the face and don’t know the message. Actually I have much less fear since I confronted fears. What’s frightening to me is people whose unconscious leads them, destroys them, and yet they will never stop and look at it. That’s the minotaur in the labyrinth, which many people never come face t…
It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts. For we take memory and imagination with us. The seabirds that scream overhead or waddle along the margins of the surf; the grotesque forms of twisted cedars; the rustle of sea-grass in the wind; the interminable percussion of the breakers; the dead infinity of the sand itself -…
I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons. The aria they performed was a song to break the heart, full of tragic dissonance and deferred hope, and yet somewhere beneath it all was a piercing refrain of glory, glory, glory. And I sensed that not only the grand movements of the cosmos, but everything that had happened in my life, was a part of that song. Even the hu…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1983–2018).