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Meaning of 'pulse' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pulse [ n.]
- Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
- The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
- Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.
2 . Pulse [ v. i.]
- To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
3 . Pulse [ v. t.]
- To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Meaning of 'pulse' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pulse [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
Example in sentence:
  • he could feel the beat of her heart
Meaning (2):
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
Example in sentence:
  • the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star
3 . pulse [ v]
Meaning (3):
- drive by or as if by pulsation
Example in sentence:
  • A soft breeze pulsed the air
Meaning (4):
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
Example in sentence:
  • a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube;
  • pulse waves
Meaning (5):
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
Example in sentence:
  • The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it

Nearby Words:

pulas pulchritude pule puled puler pulex pulicene pulicose pulicous puling

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