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Definitions: Impulsion |
ImpulsionNoun1. A force that moves something along. 2. The act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impulsion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Impulsion \Im*pul"sion\, noun. [Latin expression impulsio: compare to the French expression impulsion. See Impel.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Sports & Leisure | The horse is at the alert, and under control of the rider with muscles concentrated in readiness for movement like a compressed spring. A horse in this condition is said to have impulsion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ImpulsionSynonyms: drift (n), impetus (n), impulse (n). (additional references) |
| 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. |
Motive | Persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation; (excitation of feeling); inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice; solicitation; (request); lobbyism; pull. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Impulsion |
| Specialty definitions using "impulsion": collected walk. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Impulsion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (access, drive, impetus, impulse, impulsion, insistence, pressure, pulse, urgency), Spanish (actuation, propulsion). |
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| "Impulsion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impulsion" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
impulsion | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impulsion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtytje (boost, dub, impulse, impulsiveness, incitement, inducement, jostle, persuasive, poke, pressure, prompt, prompting, propulsion, push, repulsion), nxitje (abetment, challenge, cheer, countenance, dare, dig, drive, egging, encouragement, exhortation, fomentation, impetus, incentive, incitement, inducement, instancy, instigation, kick, oestrum, oestrus, pressure, prod, prompt, prompting, stimulation, stimulus, urge). (various references) | |
Arabic | â€Ø¥Ù†Ø¯Ùاع (break, burst, dash, dive, drift, fling, impulse, impulsiveness, lunge, onrush, prod, raciness, rush, scramble, surge, tear). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тлаÑкане (boost, propulsion), движение (course, go, locomotion, motion, move, movement, propulsion, race, stir, way, working). (various references) | |
Chinese | 推动 (impel, impelled, impelling, impetus). (various references) | |
Danish | impuls (drive, impulse, pulse, strobe), strømstød (impulse, pulse). (various references) | |
Dutch | impulsus (impulse, pulse), impulsie (impulse, pulse), impuls (access, count, drive, impetus, impulse, pulse, spike), zenuwinmpuls (impulse, pulse). (various references) | |
Finnish | sysäys (boost, encouragement, impact, impetus, push, rocket propulsion, shock, thrust). (various references) | |
French | impulsion (impetus, impulse). (various references) | |
German | impuls (access, burst, drive, impetus, impulse, momentum, pulse, pulsed quantity, strobe), antrieb (access, account, actuation, actuator, drive, drive head, drive line, driver, driving gear, driving mechanism, fillip, impellent, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, kind of drive, motive, movement, prime mover, prompting, propulsion, reason, spur, system of drive, transmission). (various references) | |
Greek | ώθηση (actuation, boost, furtherance, hunch, impetus, impulse, jostle, kicking, motivation, propulsion, pulse, push, pushing off, spur, throwing, thrust, uplift, urge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajtóerõ (agent, driving force, propulsion). (various references) | |
Italian | impulso (actuation, boost, conation, count, drive, impetus, impulse, instinct, momentum, propulsion, pulse, push, spike, sway, urge). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impulsionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | impulso (boost, count, drift, drive, Eland, energizing impulse, go, head, impetus, impulse, instinct, moment, motion, propulsive, pulse, push, rocket propulsion, shoot, shove, spur, thrust, urge), impulsão (buoyance, buoyancy, drive, impulse, impulsive, instinct, pressure, propulsion, pulse, thrust), impacto (bump, hit, impact, impaction, impingement), pulsação (angular frequency, angular velocity, attack, beat, drive, ictus, impulse, palpitation, pant, pulsation, pulse, radian frequency, stroke, vibration). (various references) | |
Romanian | impuls (drive, fillip, gadfly, impetus, impulse, momentum, motion, spur, stimulus, swing, urge), imbold (fillip, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive), constrângere (bondage, check, coercion, compulsion, constraint, cramp, disincentive, duresse, enforcement, force, pressure, restraint, restriction, servitude, stress), îndemnare (exhortation, knack), împingere înainte. (various references) | |
Russian | побуждение (drive, exhortation, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, inducement, motion, motive, oestrum, oestrus, persuasive, prompting, urge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podsticaj (abetment, fillip, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive, prod, spur, stimulus, whet), guranje (bunt, extrusion, jostle, poke, push, shove, thrust, thrusting). (various references) | |
Spanish | impulsión (impulse, pulse). (various references) | |
Swedish | pådrivning, framdrivning, drivkraft (drift, driving force, momentum, motive power, prime mover, propelling force, propulsive force, tensile force), drift (administration, banter, chaff, drift, drifting, drive, hot conditions, instinct, jest, jesting, joking, Josh, leg pull, management, operating conditions, operation, operations, persiflage, running, service, traffic, urge, working). (various references) | |
Turkish | itme (impellent, impulse, jog, propulsion, push, pushing, repulse, repulsion, shove, thrust), itici güç (driving force, propellant, propellent power, propulsive force), dürtü (challenge, compulsion, drive, ginger, impetus, impulse, incentive, motivation, motive, spur, stimulation, urge). (various references) | |
Ukranian | удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, cant, chop, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), Ñпонука (impetus, impulse, incentive, motion, motivation, motive, oestrus, persuasive, provocation, urge). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sức đẩy tá»›i sá»± bốc Ä‘á»"ng (impulse), sá»± đẩy tá»›i, cÆ¡n bốc Ä‘á»"ng sá»± thúc đẩy (impulse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impulsion": impulsions. (additional references) | |
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"Impulsion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impluvia, imulsion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "impulsion" (pronounced 'Im*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, Confession, Confusion, Congression, Consension, Conspersion, Contorsion, Contraversion, Controversion, Contusion, Conversion, Convulsion, Corrasion, Corrosion, Decession, Decision, Declension, Decursion, Delapsion, Delusion, Demersion, Demission, Demulsion, Deprehension, Depression, Depulsion, Derision, Descension, Detersion, Detorsion, Detrusion, Diffission, Diffusion, Digression, Dimension, Dimission, Discession, Disclusion, Discommission, Discursion, Discussion, Dismission, Dispansion, Dispassion, Dispersion, Displosion, Dispossession, Dissension, Dissuasion, Distension, Diversion, Effossion, Effusion, Egression, Elapsion, Elusion, Emersion, Emission, Empassion, Emulsion, Erasion, Evasion, Eversion, Evulsion, Excision, Exclusion, Excursion, Excussion, Exesion, Expansion, Explosion, expression, extension, Extersion, Extramission, Extraversion, Extroversion, Extrusion, Fidejussion, fission, fusion, Illision, illusion, immersion, Immission, Impassion, implosion, imprecision, impression, Improvision, Inadhesion, Inapprehension, Incension, Incession, incision, inclusion, Incompassion, incomprehension, Inconfusion, incursion, INDECISION, Indivision, Inextension, infusion, Ingression, Inhesion, Inrecision, Insession, Inspersion, Insubmission, intension, intercession, Interclusion, Interfusion, intermission, interspersion, Intorsion, Intrafusion, Introcession, Introgression, intromission, Intropression, introversion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, Invision, Irremission, Irrision, lesion, manumission, Mersion, misapprehension, Misconclusion, Misdivision, Misexpression, Mispassion, Mispersuasion, Misprision, Nonadmission, Noncohesion, Nonsubmission, Obsession, Obtension, Obtrusion, Obtusion, Obversion, Occision, Occlusion, Occursion, Offension, Omission, Oppression, Ostension, Outpassion, Percussion, Perfusion, Permansion, permission, Perpension, Perpession, Persuasion, Pertusion, Pervasion, Perversion, Portension, Preadmission, Preapprehension, Precession, Precision, Preclusion, Prehension, Prepossession, Presension, Pression, Pretension, Pretermission, Prevision, Profession, Profusion, Prolapsion, Prolusion, Propension, Propulsion, Protension, Protrusion, Pulsion, readmission, Reascension, Recension, Recision, Reclusion, Recommission, Reconversion, recursion, Recussion, Refossion, Refusion, regression, Reimpression, repercussion, repossession, reprehension, repression, repulsion, rescission, Respersion, Responsion, Retrocession, retrogression, retroversion, Retrusion, reversion, revision, revulsion, scansion, scission, secession, seclusion, Self-delusion, self-possession, session, Sponsion, suasion, subdivision, Subingression, submersion, submission, subversion, succession, Succision, succussion, Suffossion, suffusion, supersession, supervision, suppression, Supravision, suspension, Thermotension, torsion, Transcension, Transcursion, transfusion, transgression, transmission, Transversion, Trusion, Uncircumcision, Unconversion, Unintermission, Unpersuasion, Version. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-m-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: impious, ioniums, moulins, nimious, pulsion, spumoni, upsilon. | |
-3 letters: insoul, ionium, linums, lipins, lupins, moulin, muslin, opiums, pilous, poilus, simlin. | |
-4 letters: ilium, imino, impis, limns, limos, limps, linos, linum, lions, lipin, loins, louis, loups, lumps, lupin, milos, minis, minus, moils, munis, muons, noils, onium, opium, opsin, pilis, pilus, pions, pious, plums, poilu, polis, pulis, slump, solum, spoil. | |
-5 letters: impi, imps, ions, limn, limo, limp, lino, lins, lion, lips, lisp, loin, lops, loup, lump, lums, milo, mils, mini, miso, moil, mols, mons, mops, muni, muns, muon, nils, nims, nips, nisi, noil, noms, nous, oils, onus, opus, pili, pins, pion, piso, plum, plus, pois, pols, poms, pons, puli, puls, puns, silo, simp, slim, slip, slop, slum, snip, soil, soli, soul, soup, spin, spun, sumo, sump, umps, upon. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-m-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: impulsions. | |
+2 letters: multipiston. | |
+4 letters: impecuniously, manipulations, pusillanimous, unpromisingly. | |
+5 letters: micropulsation, parsimoniously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 75 6C 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. ..- .-.. ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01110101 01101100 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p u l s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0075 006C 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982877885758180 |
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