What's the difference between diddle and percussion?

Diddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.00pm BST 14 min: Commons tries to trick the keeper by cracking a freekick in at the near post rather than crossing, but you have to get up earlier than that to diddle Smokin' Mokin, who beats the ball away acrobatically.
  • (2) The ministerial batting partnership of Cable and Fallon played a straight bat to claims that the investment banks diddled the government, and were aggressive in categorically disputing that taxpayers lost out.
  • (3) The Scottish Labour party said the deficit destroyed the Scottish National party's case that the country was being "diddled" by the rest of the UK and underlined the importance for Scotland of remaining in the union to share risks and rewards.
  • (4) Updated at 11.42pm BST 11.05pm BST ET 6 min: Robben shows a bit of rare ambition, his toes twinkling down the right, diddling Demichelis and winning a corner.
  • (5) Aguero diddles across the QPR area from the left, and then slips a pass through to Tevez.
  • (6) 3 min: From a corner, Benzema picks up the ball on the edge of the Rangers box, thinks about a shot, then checks and feeds Baros, who so nearly diddles Papac down the right.
  • (7) "This shows the huge economic benefits of Scotland working in partnership with the rest of the UK and explodes the myth that somehow Scotland's finances are being diddled by the club we are part of," he said.
  • (8) 35 min: Bendtner diddles down the right and loops the ball into the six-yard area.
  • (9) Anita diddles around down the right, reaching the byline and laying off for Gutierrez, whose cross is guided away from danger by Hart.
  • (10) 5.42pm GMT 82 min: Suarez diddles his way into the Chelsea area on the left but he's crowded out.
  • (11) 8.24pm BST 23 min: Snodgrass diddles around on the edge of the England area, and should be awarded a free kick, Gerrard coming through the back of him.
  • (12) 21 min: Fucile and Alvaro Pereira diddle down the left.
  • (13) 2.58pm BST In the women's final, the wonderful, wondrous Serena Williams diddled Sara Errani 6-3, 6-0.
  • (14) Nasri diddles his way in from the left and thumps one goalwards from 20 yards out.
  • (15) 6.48pm GMT 60 min: That was incredibly poor judgement from Lovren there, who was diddled all ends up by Suarez.
  • (16) 1.31pm GMT 45 min: Simpson diddles Clichy down the right and swings one to the far post, where Cisse causes enough bother to win a corner.
  • (17) 6.35pm BST 78 min: Messi dances and diddles into the area down the inside left.

Percussion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
  • (n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
  • (n.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
  • (2) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
  • (3) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
  • (4) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
  • (5) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
  • (6) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
  • (7) A newer technique, ausculatory percussion, has been reported as having a far higher sensitivity.
  • (8) Sheep fail to demonstrate changes in any of these variables after severe percussive wave brain trauma.
  • (9) Beneficial effects for opiate receptor antagonists have also been observed after fluid percussion head injury in cats.
  • (10) The chi-square results indicated that the peptostreptococcus were significantly related to apical radiolucency and B. melaninogenicus were significantly related to percussion or foul smell.
  • (11) These data demonstrate that fluid percussion injury in the rat reproduces many of the features of head injury observed in other models and species.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SprungDigi crew member creating percussion sounds for MusicMix.
  • (13) The subcutaneous thickening, the tenderness on compression and percussion of the hypothenar eminence or Raynaud's phenomenon of the last fingers should arise the suspicion of this syndrome, which will be confirmed by a positive Allen's test, Doppler examination or digitalized angiography.
  • (14) Bladder percussion produced contraction of the wall of the bladder and this was regularly associated with increased arterial mean and pulse pressures, a decreased heart rate and calf and hand blood flow, and venoconstriction.
  • (15) 10 out of 26 cases of pneumothorax could be suspected by percussion dullness.
  • (16) 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to determine the intracellular free Mg2+ concentration prior to and following fluid percussion induced traumatic brain injury in rats.
  • (17) This model employs the same fluid percussion device commonly used in in vivo brain injury studies.
  • (18) The fluid percussion device was attached over the right parietal cortex and a moderate (2.0 atm) intensity injury was produced.
  • (19) Neurological examinations revealed that she had facial diplegia, inverted V-shaped mouth, high-arched palate, talipes equinus, percussion myotonia of the tongue, generalized muscular atrophy and weakness, lordosis, areflexia, and congenital cataracta.
  • (20) The visco-elastic properties of a healthy tooth enabling the percussion of the Periotest tapping head to be decelerated in less than 1 ms are largely lost in periodontitis.