Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by percussion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to percussion or a light sharp stroke; striking; striking against something.
- noun Specifically, in music, an instrument of percussion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Striking against; percutient.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective characterized by
percussion ; caused by or related to the action ofstriking orpounding something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments
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Examples
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The place was packed and noisy, with chopsticks clicking against plates in percussive counterpoint to the boisterous conversations.
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Friday’s artist is also interested in percussive string instruments but favors the harp over the piano.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Friday’s artist is also interested in percussive string instruments but favors the harp over the piano.
Sawdust and Diamonds 2007
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The whip-like, in-a-trance polyrhythm of "Snakecharming the Masses" recalls the percussive sounds they heard during their musical journeys in Istanbul.
Dose.ca Celeb News 2009
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This multimedia journey across Planet Hip-Hop is described as a percussive call-and-response with turntablist DJ Excess and multi-instrumentalist Ajayi Jackson, accompanied by video by Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi.
LAist 2009
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I want to see what shadows are cast by a Calder mobile dangling from an ear, or to hear what kind of percussive music it creates.
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It helped me to develop this kind of percussive - intricate, percussive style.
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The more acceleration, the more transient noise and therefore the more "percussive" is the resulting sound.
'Playing the Piano' Ryser, Marc 1999
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The greatest thing about this picture, adapted from a novel by "William Irish" (a pen name for Cornell Woolrich) is its completely invented reality which, while certainly informed by German Expressionism, spins off into a realm of horrific hilarity, as in the picture's legendary "jazz drummer" sequence, wherein Raines, dolled up and playing hep-kitten, eggs on hopped-up Elisha Cook Jr. (who has information that could exonerate Raines 'boss) to a kind of percussive orgasm.
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The greatest thing about this picture, adapted from a novel by "William Irish" (a pen name for Cornell Woolrich) is its completely invented reality which, while certainly informed by German Expressionism, spins off into a realm of horrific hilarity, as in the picture's legendary "jazz drummer" sequence, wherein Raines, dolled up and playing hep-kitten, eggs on hopped-up Elisha Cook Jr. (who has information that could exonerate Raines 'boss) to a kind of percussive orgasm.
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