Pulse
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English
Noun
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.
- (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
- A beat or throb.
- (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
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Verb
Pulse (third-person singular simple present pulses, present participle pulsing, simple 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
Thesaurus
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Etymology
Latin pulsus (“beat”), from pellere (“to drive”).
For spelling, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
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See also
(Physiology):
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References
- Pulse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Pulse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.
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Spanish
Verb
Pulse (infinitive pulsar)
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