Thumping vs X - What's the difference?
thumping | x |
A dull, heavy sound.
* 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
A beating.
* 1824 , William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers
(sports) A heavy defeat.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 11
, author=Jonathan Stevenson
, title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham
, work=BBC
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As an adjective thumping
is (informal) exceptional in some degree.As a noun thumping
is a dull, heavy sound.As a verb thumping
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.thumping
English
Noun
- There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
- He received a thumping from the school bully.
- And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
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