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Definition: Percuss |
PercussVerb1. Strike or tap firmly; "the doctor percussed his chest and back". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Percuss |
| English words defined with "percuss": Percussed, Percussing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "percuss": Percussion, Percutient. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "percuss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trokas (clink, dab, drum, knock, rap, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقر (drum, flip, gouge, peck, plunk, prickle, tap, tapping), قدح (dispraise, glass, goblet, invective, libel, slander, slur, snap, tumbler, vituperate, vituperation), طرق (bang, beating, enter, knock, knock repeatedly, knocking, percussion, pounding, puncture, rap, tool), صدم (be shocked, bump, hit, offend, ram, shock, strike, stub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | причуквам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perkutere (to percuss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | percuteren (to percuss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | percuter (to percuss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | perkutieren (to percuss), abklopfen (beat, brush off, check, knock off, look into, sound, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κτυπώ ελαφρώσ προσ διάγνωσιν. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megkopogtat (to knock, to tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | percuotere (beat, belt, cuff, hit, knock, maul, strike, thrash, thwack, to percuss, trounce, wallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercusspay percutir (hit, knock, strike, to percuss). (various references) percuta. (various references) выстукивать. (various references) udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), kucati (beat, knock, tick, type). (various references) percutir (strike, to percuss). (various references) perkutera. (various references) vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), hafifçe vurmak (clap, flick, rap, tap, tip). (various references) вистукувати (drum), перкутувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "percuss": percussed, percusses, percussing, percussion, percussionist, percussionists, percussions, percussive, percussively, percussiveness, percussivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "percuss": repercussion, repercussions, repercussive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spruces. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cruses, curses, cusser, purses, spruce, sprues, sucres, supers. | |
-2 letters: cress, cruse, cures, curse, cusps, ecrus, press, puces, purse, puses, ruses, scups, specs, sprue, spues, spurs, sucre, suers, super, supes, users. | |
-3 letters: ceps, cess, crus, cues, cups, cure, curs, cusp, cuss, ecru, ecus, pecs, puce, pure, purs, puss, recs, reps, rues, ruse, scup, secs. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: corpuses, cypruses, scaupers, screwups, scruples, scuppers, sprucest. | |
+2 letters: aruspices, cutpurses, percussed, percusses, piecrusts, purchases, resculpts, sapsucker, spectrums, spruciest, supercars, supercops, surplices. | |
+3 letters: composures, corpuscles, crepuscles, epicurisms, haruspices, percussing, percussion, percussive, persecutes, preciouses, precursors, prefocuses, prosecutes, prospectus, purchasers, pursuances, sapsuckers, scriptures, sculptress, sculptures, sepulchers, sepulchres, spruceness, subprocess, sunporches, supercedes, superclass, superclubs, supercoils, supercools, superjocks, superraces, superscale, superscout, superslick, supersonic, superstock, uppercases, uroscopies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 75 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. -.-. ..- ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01110101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c u s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 0075 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718469878585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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