different between percussive vs knocker

English

Etymology

percuss +? -ive

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??k?s?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??k?s?v/
• Hyphenation: per?cuss?ive

Adjective

percussive (comparative more percussive, superlative most percussive)

1. Characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something.
2. (phonetics) Produced by striking organs together, for example, smacking the lips or gnashing the teeth.
   • 2013, Nigel Hewlett, Janet Mackenzie Beck, An Introduction to the Science of Phonetics, Routledge (?ISBN)

     Two additional, and much rarer, percussive articulations are represented by symbols in the extIPA chart. Their exclusion from the main IPA chart is an indication that they do not seem to occur as typical forms of adult speech in any part of the world, although they may have some communicative function. The symbol, [?], is used to transcribe a bilabial percussive sound, which might be described in lay terms as lip-smacking.

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Noun

percussive (plural percussives)

1. (phonetics) A percussive phone.
   • 2014, Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller, Phonetics for Communication Disorders, Psychology Press (?ISBN)

     Percussives are articulations where two rigid or semirigid articulators are struck against each other to produce a short, sharp sound.

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Italian

Adjective

percussive

1. feminine plural of percussivo

English

Etymology

knock +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

knocker (plural knockers)

1. A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
2. A person who knocks.
   • 1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography (page 220)

     He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.

3. A critic; one who disparages.
4. (informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
5. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts.
6. (especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking. [18th to 19th c.]
7. (pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
   • 1963, Harper's magazine (volume 226)

     A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress […]

8. (dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
9. A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
10. (geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
11. (slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.
    • 2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller (page 48)

      To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]

Synonyms

• (a woman's breasts): See also Thesaurus:breasts

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