Vocabulary Word
Word: propulsive
Definition: driving forward; N. propulsion
Definition: driving forward; N. propulsion
Sentences Containing 'propulsive'
On March 15, 2012, in a keynote speech to an audience at the South by Southwest music festival, Bruce Springsteen discussed the Animals' influence on his music at length, praising their harsh, propulsive sound and lyrical content.
Will Dukes of "Spin" complimented its socially relevant themes and called the album "a thematically, unified, musically propulsive statement about the decline of contemporary society".
Its propulsive power is limited by the user's respiratory muscles.
It and the salmon shark are the thickest-bodied members of their family (length-depth ratio approaching 4.5), and consequently have the stiffest swimming style: they oscillate their tails while holding their bodies mostly rigid, which confers propulsive power with high energy efficiency, but at the cost of maneuverability.
Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose "Cut You In" as the sole AMG Pick off the album while "Billboard" called the song "propulsive."
This warhead type uses the interaction of the detonation wave(s), and to a lesser extent the propulsive effect of the detonation products, to deform a dish/plate of metal (iron, tantalum, etc.) into a slug-shaped projectile of low length to diameter ratio (L to D) and project this towards the target at around two kilometres per second.
A ballistic body is a body with momentum which is free to move, subject to forces, such as the pressure of gases in a gun or a propulsive nozzle, by rifling in a barrel, by gravity, or by air drag.
The drop in pressure immediately boils some of the water and the steam leaves through a nozzle, creating a propulsive force.
Rocket propellant is a material used by a rocket as, or to produce in a chemical reaction, the reaction mass (propulsive mass) that is ejected, typically with very high speed, from a rocket engine to produce thrust, and thus provide spacecraft propulsion.
Anthony DeCurtis of "Rolling Stone" wrote: "'Crazy in Love' ... roars out of the speakers on the strength of a propulsive horn sample and the charged presence of her pal, Jay-Z."
Allmusic's David Jeffries also gave it four stars on five and wrote: "Macklemore Ryan Lewis combine the handclapping, foot-stomping, and propulsive rhythms of old-fashioned gospel music with an infectious, uplifting chorus that could have been ripped straight out of will.i.am's playbook...this motivational, "this is the moment" number is identifiably and lovably Macklemore."
Although he indicated that it was "hard to argue with Brandy's deference to the rhythm, especially when she rides one of producer Rodney Jerkins itchily propulsive tracks," he also noted that it was flattening "its emotional range, until the romantic bliss of "Happy," the dogged determination of "Never Say Never," and the conflicted affection of "Angel in Disguise" all end up sounding pretty much the same."