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Pulse   /pəls/   Listen
Pulse

noun
1.
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).  Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulsing.
2.
The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.  Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation.
3.
The rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health.  Synonyms: heart rate, pulse rate.
4.
Edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.).
verb
1.
Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.  Synonyms: pulsate, throb.
2.
Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses.  Synonym: pulsate.  "A transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
3.
Drive by or as if by pulsation.



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"Pulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... speech. The soberness of wisdom, the humility of religion, the plainness of worth, are unattractive and unrecognized. We rush after material things, like hunters after game; and in the excitement of the chase our pulse grows quick, and our vision confused. We have lost the art of patient work and expectation. We are no more capable of living in our work, of making it the means of our growth and happiness. What we do, must be quickly done, must have immediate results. ...
— Education and the Higher Life • J. L. Spalding
... may strike it off from us; the next sentence I would utter may be broken and fall between us.[3] The beauty that has made a thousand hearts to beat at one instant, at the succeeding has been without pulse and colour, without admirer, friend, companion, follower. She by whose eyes the march of victory shall have been directed, whose name shall have animated armies at the extremities of the earth, drops into one of its crevices ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... with the view of the later story of the earth which was expressed on an earlier page, we now come to the second of the three great revolutions which have quickened the pulse of life on the earth. Many men of science resent the use of the word revolution, and it is not without some danger. It was once thought that the earth was really shaken at times by vast and sudden cataclysms, which destroyed its entire living population, so that new kingdoms of plants ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe
... pulse of a measure (the first one) is always marked by a down-beat. This principle is merely a specific application of the general fact that a downward stroke is stronger than an upward one (cf. driving ...
— Essentials in Conducting • Karl Wilson Gehrkens
... his head, and listened. The steady drone of the Channel along the sea-front that had borne us company so long leaped up a note to the sudden fuller surge that signals the change from ebb to flood. It beat in like the change of step throughout an army—this renewed pulse of the sea—and filled our ears till they, accepting ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling


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