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Definition: PULSION |
PULSIONNoun1. The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction. |
Etymology: Pulsion \Pul"sion\, noun. [Latin expression pulsio, from pellere, pulsum, to drive: compare to the French expression pulsion.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PULSION" is a common misspelling or typo for: Passion, Pelion, Pension, Pillion, Pulsing. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Noun: impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw; explosion; (violence); propulsion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PULSION |
| Specialty definitions using "PULSION": Jeffrey diaphragm jig. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pulsion | 7 |
de muerte pulsion | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PULSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | pulsion. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | pulsie. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | pulsion. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Pulsion. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | pulsione (drive, impulse, instinct, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulsionpay pulsión. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PULSION": pulsions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PULSION": compulsion, expulsion, impulsion, propulsion, repulsion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PULSION": compulsions, expulsions, impulsions, propulsions, repulsions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PULSION" (pronounced 'Pul"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: upsilon. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: insoul, lupins, pilous, poilus. | |
-2 letters: linos, lions, loins, louis, loups, lupin, noils, opsin, pilus, pions, pious, poilu, polis, pulis, spoil. | |
-3 letters: ions, lino, lins, lion, lips, lisp, loin, lops, loup, nils, nips, noil, nous, oils, onus, opus, pins, pion, piso, plus, pois, pols, pons, puli, puls, puns, silo, slip, slop, snip, soil, soli. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pulsions, purloins, unspoilt, upsilons. | |
+2 letters: couplings, expulsion, impulsion, poloniums, prelusion, prolusion, pulsation, repulsion, spinulose, unspoiled. | |
+3 letters: aneuploids, bluepoints, compulsion, consulship, expulsions, impulsions, nonplusing, opulencies, paulownias, pleustonic, plutoniums, pollutions, preclusion, prelusions, proinsulin, prolusions, propulsion, pulsations, punctilios, purloiners, repulsions, suppletion, unpolished. | |
+4 letters: compulsions, consulships, copulations, leukopenias, liposuction, multipiston, neutrophils, nonplussing, nulliparous, outsleeping, outspelling, peculations, penuriously, poisonously, polemoniums, populations, postnuptial, postulating, postulation, preclusions, proinsulins, propulsions, punctilious, pustulation, speculation, spiculation, sporulating, sporulation, stipulation, suppletions. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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