Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or having power to propel; driving or urging on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
propulsion - adjective Serving to
propel
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to or capable of propelling
- adjective having the power to propel
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Examples
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It lacks nuance, complexity, and what Toni Morrison calls the propulsive “midwifery properties” of language.
A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange 2007
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It lacks nuance, complexity, and what Toni Morrison calls the propulsive “midwifery properties” of language.
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The same eight dancers, the same kind of propulsive minimalist score (“The Light,” by Philip Glass), and yet Lux is in total contrast to Alchemy.
City Ballet's Ceaseless Work in Progress; Varone's Meditation on Daniel Pearl 2009
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The same eight dancers, the same kind of propulsive minimalist score (“The Light,” by Philip Glass), and yet Lux is in total contrast to Alchemy.
City Ballet's Ceaseless Work in Progress; Varone's Meditation on Daniel Pearl 2009
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It becomes more than a support, it becomes a kind of propulsive force applied to the action at the start.
The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922
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The first track, "Csillagkohó", is one of the more conventionally metallic, being an epic-length piece of nasty sympho-black business with a few nifty riffs and a kind of propulsive 'Godflesh at 300 bpm' thing happening.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009
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How does a fungus achieve this kind of propulsive power?
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Then, just before the end of the record, comes the defiant "Shed and Transcend," which does for the propulsive punk barrage what we just heard "Fever Dreaming" doing for the propulsive punk riff.
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CHRISTGAU: As somebody who's thrilled to propulsive punk riffs for 35 years, I want to testify that the shrieking tunelet you just heard is the coolest new one I've encountered in this century.
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Then, just before the end of the record, comes the defiant "Shed and Transcend," which does for the propulsive punk barrage what we just heard "Fever Dreaming" doing for the propulsive punk riff.
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