pulse
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pulse (plural pulses)
- (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
- A beat or throb.
Tennyson - the measured pulse of racing oars
Burke - When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke.
- (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
- An autosoliton
- French: pouls
- German: Puls
- Italian: polso, battito, pulsazione
- Portuguese: pulso
- Russian: пульс
- Spanish: pulso
pulse (pulses, present participle pulsing; past and past participle pulsed)
- To beat, to throb, to flash.
- In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.
- To flow, particularly of blood.
- Hot blood pulses through my veins.
- To emit in discrete quantities.
- Portuguese: pulsar
pulse (plural pulses)
- Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.
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