Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Penetration. Specifically
- n. In metalworking, the operation of sawing out a pattern or an object from a plate, as distinguished from punching it out. It is done with a jigor band-saw.
- Penetrating; sharp; keen: as, piercing eyes; a piercing wind.
- That touches or moves with pity, alarm, anguish, etc.: as, a piercing cry.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of pierce.
- n. uncountable The action of the verb to pierce
- n. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it
- n. The jewelry itself
- adj. Anything or anyone that pierces.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
- adj. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
Etymologies
- From pierce + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She was already desperate for a pee; it pushed against her bladder like a pin piercing her belly.”
“So piercing is the sense of intolerable threat that I found myself having nightmares about it last night.”
“Although the extremes of body modification have been made more popular in our culture, it has been done for hundreds of years, and ear piercing is one of its oldest kinds.”
“Despite its appearance, Mommy's new nostril piercing is not a scary, glittery little bug that has lighted on her face.”
“A voice piercing from the deep could not have caused in Camilla a more immediate revulsion of ideas; but she was silent, in her turn, and he led her along the beach, while Mrs. Berlinton, attended by a train of beaux, went to her carriage, where, thus engaged, she contentedly waited.”
“Clearly you haven’t actually seen what piercing is like these days.”
“I grew up in the Midwest where ear-piercing is associated with adults … girls have to beg permission from their parents to pierce their ears and they’re not likely to get it until they’re (at least) in high school.”
“I might have removed it, but Bari had done a poor job in piercing me, as you’d expect from a sun-addled girl without previous piercing experience.”
“Stuller, Inc., a gold jewelry manufacturer in Lafayette, La., and a behind-the-scenes giant in the industry, uses a technique called "piercing.”
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“I try to let it sound natural and warm, more than drilling too much in the squillo ," he said, referring to the piercing sound singers use to project over an orchestra.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piercing’.
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EN - pseudo-English words
English words used by foreigners in a different sense than they would be used by native speakers + madeupical "English" words that sound English but are not recognized as such by native speakers of...
top, spa, sig, DM, box, videobar, vest, tutor, polo, touringcar, topfit, abseiling and 263 more...
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.com...hurry, run, scamper, skip, stride, stampede, trample, scramble, dart, spring, spin, sprint and 141 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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Words describing singing voices
mellifluous, gravelly, rusty bathtub, velvet fog, howling, laconic, fluttering, quavery, hypnotic, stilted, lilting, sonorous and 47 more...
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words about piercings
needles, metal, piercing, tongue, surface, nape, ears, mouth, industrial, nose, tragus, webbing and 11 more...
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English words used in Czech
best-seller, peeling, piercing, snowboard, skateboard, all inclusive, know-how, image, swing, party, spam, playback and 32 more...
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Naresh_Gre
The path meanders through the vineyards
meander, labyrinth, Sinuous, gyrate, caron, awry, credo, banter, juxtaposition, argot, inexorable, foibles and 223 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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words about light
words about light, about qualities of light, about ways light is transmitted, about vision and lack thereof.
opacity, aureate, translucent, vivid, visual, blinding, dimness, brightness, lumens, luminous, fresnel, illumination and 27 more...
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The Body Project
Ways we modify our bodies.
snakebites, piercing, tattoo, botox, implant, liposuction, henna, circumcision, manicure, pedicure, scarification, trepanation and 7 more...
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Yuck
Icky, ooey things, grossness or sundry objectionables.
quaggy, gurry, trepan, head cheese, bodewash, casu marzu, lardon, balut, nidhoggr, tarantelli, dairy group, vesiga and 58 more...
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Tickle My Ears!
Words used to describe one's voice.
low, high-pitched, deep, booming, lilting, whispery, hoarse, raspy, throaty, angelic, male, female and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for piercing.
muse25 to perforate Oct 23, 2008
Prolagus Torino, the pierced city. Apr 30, 2008