Pulse
[pʌls]
Definition
(noun.) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; 'he could feel the beat of her heart'.
(noun.) edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.).
(noun.) the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health.
(verb.) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; 'pulse waves'; 'a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube'.
(verb.) drive by or as if by pulsation; 'A soft breeze pulsed the air'.
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Definition
(n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
(n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
(v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Beating or throbbing of an artery.[2]. Legumes, fruit of leguminous plants.
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Definition
n. grain or seed of beans pease &c.—adj. Pultā′ceous macerated and softened.
n. a beating or throbbing: a measured beat or throb: a vibration: the beating of the heart and the arteries: (fig.) feeling sentiment.—v.i. to beat as the heart: to throb.—adj. Pulse′less having no pulsation: without life.—ns. Pulse′lessness; Pulse′-rate the number of beats of a pulse per minute; Pulse′-wave the expansion of the artery moving from point to point like a wave as each beat of the heart sends the blood to the extremities.—adj. Pulsif′ic exciting the pulse.—ns. Pulsim′eter an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse; Pulsom′eter a pulsimeter: a kind of steam-condensing pump.—Feel one's pulse to find out by the sense of touch the force of the blood in the arteries: to find out what one is thinking on some point; Public pulse the movement of public opinion on any question; Quick pulse a pulse in which the rise of tension is very rapid.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of your pulse, is warning to look after your affairs and health with close care, as both are taking on debilitating conditions. To dream of feeling the pulse of another, signifies that you are committing depredations in Pleasure's domain.
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Examples
- New life stirred in every pulse. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But every pulse beat in him as he remembered how she had come down and placed herself in foremost danger,--could it be to save him? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I read a poem or two; whether the spell was in me or in the verse I know not, but my heart filled genially, my pulse rose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue, said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then 800 pulses of air will reach the ear each second, and the ear drum, being flexible, will respond and will vibrate at the same rate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Puzzledout of breath, all my pulses throbbing in inevitable agitation, I knew not where to turn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the deepest fountain of my heart the pulses were stirred; around, above, beneath, the clinging Memory as a cloak enwrapt me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My heart throbbed fast; the pulses at my temples beat furiously. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Both the girls felt their faces glow and their pulses throb; both knew they would do no good by rushing down into the _mêlée_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The pulses created in the air by a sounding body are received by the ear and the impulses which they impart to the auditory nerve pass to the brain and we become conscious of a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I held the taut line and felt the faint pulsing of the spinner revolving while I looked at the dark November water of the lake and the deserted shore. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Eustacia, though set inwardly pulsing by his words, was equal to her part in such a drama as this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It came again, the swishing like the noise of a rocket and there was another up-pulsing of dirt and smoke farther up the hillside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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