Percuss

Word PERCUSS
Character 7
Hyphenation per cuss
Pronunciations /pəˈkʌs/

Definitions and meanings of "Percuss"

What do we mean by percuss?

To strike or tap firmly, as in medical percussion. transitive verb

To strike against so as to shake or give a shock to; strike.

Specifically, in medicine: To tap or strike for diagnostic purposes. See percussion, 4 .

To tap or strike for therapeutie purposes. See percussion, 4 .

To strike smartly; to strike upon or against. transitive verb

To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See percussion, 3. intransitive verb

To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to. verb

To impact. verb

To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface). verb

To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface. verb

Strike or tap firmly verb

To strike; to hit; to knock; to give a blow to

To impact

To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface)

To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context and/or with musical intent. The word, "percussion", has evolved from Latin terms: "percussio" (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical sense, rather than the violent action), and "percussus" (which is a noun meaning "a beating"). As a noun in contemporary English it is described at Wiktionary as "the collision of two bodies to produce a sound". The usage of the term is not unique to music but has application in medicine and weaponry, as in percussion cap, but all known and common uses of the word, "percussion", appear to share a similar lineage beginning with the original Latin: "percussus". In a musical context then, the term "percussion instruments" may have been coined originally to describe a family of instruments including drums, rattles, metal plates, or wooden blocks which musicians would beat or strike (as in a collision) to produce sound. Urban Dictionary

A family of instruments that either use their hands, or something else to play. There are four types of Percussion instruments: Mallets: Usually the well known Xylophone, Marimba, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel/Bells. The Chimes/Tubular Bells could also be in this category. Drums: Snare Drum, Base Drum, Toms, Bongos, Congas, Gongs, Drum Kit, Brake Drum, and many more that I don't know. Auxiliary: Triangle, Shaker, Maracas, Slap Stick, Temple Blocks, Wood Blocks, Claves, Vibraslap, Crash Cymbals, Suspended Cymbal, Chains, Sleigh Bells, and many, many more. Then there is the Timpani, which is in it's own category. Despite what other people say about us, we are just as important as other instruments. We can read notes, both Treble and Base Clef. For Marimba, we can read both at the same time in a Grand Staff. Percussion is the unique section that keeps the beat most of the time. If we were the bad people who ignore and annoy the conductor, I don't think we'd exist. Some conductors are Percussionist themselves. We do not always share the same instruments. We do not just randomly hit stuff. Timpani is the only instrument we have to worry about pitch. Our Instruments have a certain spot where we have to hit. We call this the sweet spot. Urban Dictionary

1) Any instrument that is played by striking or hitting. 2) A section in a band or orchestra, in which the players strike the instrument to play it. 3) Not a drummer. Urban Dictionary

Usually the section that gets a complement from other band directors, always talking, and never know where they are in the music. Urban Dictionary

A group of different instruments, usually in band, that make up background/non central noises within the piece. Urban Dictionary

Usually considered as the people in the band who can't play an instrument or read music. This group is the one that in the definition (band) usually loses their virginity first if they aren't a slob. Urban Dictionary

A group in the band played by the people without musical talent who usually just sit there and talk to each other the whole class. they are the assholes who get the conductor mad all the time. annoys the hell out of the trumpets who sit right in front of them. Urban Dictionary

A person you makes sounds to correspond to the percussion in recordings like Fever Ray Take It to the Streets Urban Dictionary

The fine art of bludgeoning an electronic device in order to encourage it to work properly. Vigorous usage of this technique often renders said device permanently nonfunctional. Urban Dictionary

A way of surviving after marching band season is over. Urban Dictionary

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The word "percuss" in example sentences

He teaches him how to read the signs from the human body, to use his hands to percuss, and to use his mind to listen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He moved onto more recent acts, slim-hipped and breastless women with curly brown hair and hyper-aggressive technique, women who were better axe-men than he, who shouted like bluesmen and rained down upon him the redemptive fires of slide and the snapping percuss of bass strings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ten things I like that begin with the letter K: 1. Knights, as we of the Boogie Knights oft refer to ourselves. boogiebabe_smap, theo_knight, John, Heather, Linda, and cairokate are all good eggs and wonderful bandmates, and it's been a privilege to percuss for them for the past year. ❋ Terri_osborne (2006)

During the procedure your physician first will percuss, or “tap out,” your liver, and mark a suitable spot. ❋ Sanjiv Chopra (2001)

When we raise the arms from the side and percuss the thorax between the folds of the axillae, where the serratus magnus muscle alone intervenes between the ribs and the skin, the pulmonic sound will answer clearly. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

I will first produce the vowel sound _oo_ and proceed with the vowel sounds to _i_; you will observe that the pitch rises an octave; that this is due to the changes in the form of the resonator is shown when I percuss the resonator in the position of the different vowel sounds. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Since pain in the knee-joint may mislead as to the location of the disease, to determine the seat of the affection, place the patient in a chair and percuss the knee lightly, by giving it a slight blow with the knuckle; if the hip be affected, the pain will be readily felt in that joint; if it be simply neuralgia of the knee-joint, it will excite no pain whatever. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

I have other fish to fry, other drums to percuss, other plantar warts to palpate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ask the patient to take a deep  breath and percuss this area again  Dullness in this area is a sign of splenic enlargement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The moment I heard her harp begin to percuss in "Bridges and Balloons", my ear instinctively cocked, sensing something unlike anything I'd ever heard before. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hence further we may learn the reason of the whiteness of many bodies, and by what means they maybe in part made _pellucid_: As white Marble for instance, for this body is composed of a _pellucid_ body exceedingly flaw'd, that is, there are abundance of thin, and very fine cracks or chinks amongst the multitude of particles of the body, that contain in them small parcels of air, which do so _re-percuss_ and drive back the penetrating beams, that they cannot enter very deep within that body; which the _Microscope_ does plainly inform us to be made up of a _Congeries_ of ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

_re-percuss'd_ then do enter it: the same kind of trials have I made, with ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

"You may knock," said he, when I began to percuss his chest, "but I am -- -- sure there's no one at home. ❋ Unknown (1894)

"You may knock," said he, when I began to percuss his chest, "but I am ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

[Footnote A: This was done by the lecturer placing his left forefinger on the outside of the right cheek, then striking it with the tip of the middle finger of the right hand, just in the same way as he would percuss the chest. ❋ Unknown (1889)

percussion: [spokes] on a [bicycle wheel] [brooms] a shopping cart metal pipes clay pots garbage cans ❋ ChickenHeads (2007)

We all have [a job] in the concert. Percussion. [Woodwinds]. [Brass]. We are all special ❋ ...Yay... (2015)

[1) What] [instrument] do you play? I play percussion. 2) Everyone listen back to the percussion for [tempo], because its right on. ❋ Scot (2004)

[I swear] Mr. Srigley never says [percussion] does good, but Mr. [Howell] did. ❋ I Don’t Know What 2 + 2 Is (2020)

Hey, since you are in [percussion], do you want to play the drums, [maracas], keyboard, or [tambourine]? ❋ Abby From Wii Sports (2021)

[Band Kid] 1: Who are those people in the back and why are they hitting stuff? Band Kid 2: The percussion! I just know that without them you suck [because you can't] stay together with the band. Band Kid 1: Oh No [Kool-Aid Man]: OH YEAH!!! ❋ Yomamasmamaishere (2011)

percussion:[jabber] jabber jabber trumpet:[ssh]! [the conductor] said to be quiet!percussion:shut up! im watchin' south park on my I-pod! ❋ Alex That Guy You Know (2007)

Hey, have [you heard] that guy over at the end of [the bar], he sounds like he's the [drummer]. Yeah, I know him he's a percussive junkie ❋ Supersize_my_fries (2010)

My goddamned monitor was [flickering] until I used some [percussive maintenance]; now it's totally dead and [Help Desk] is bringing me a new one. ❋ Naz_ghul (2003)

Man, [if it] wasn't for indoor percussion after [marching band], I would die of [boredom]. ❋ A Mystic's Dream (2009)

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