Kitchen vs. Percussion — What's the Difference?

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and worktops and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design.

The striking together of two bodies, especially when noise is produced.

A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.

The sound, vibration, or shock caused by the striking together of two bodies.

A style of cooking; cuisine

The act of detonating a percussion cap in a firearm.

A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.

A method of medical diagnosis in which various areas of the body, especially the chest, back, and abdomen, are tapped to determine by resonance the condition of internal organs.

A room or area for preparing food.

The section of a band or orchestra composed of percussion instruments.

(by extension) Cuisine; style of cooking.

Percussion instruments or their players considered as a group.

The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

(countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

(countable) The sound so produced.

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

(countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.

(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.

(medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.

(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.

(music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.

(obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.

(engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.

The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.

(palmistry) The outer side of the hand.

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.

To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.

(by extension) To embellish; to dress up.

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.

A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.

The act of playing a percussion instrument

A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

The act of exploding a percussion cap

The staff that works in a kitchen.

The section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments

To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.

Tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

A room equipped for preparing meals