pulse

Speech parts

1. pulse - Noun

2. pulse - Verb

Meaning

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.

To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

beat impulse throb heartbeat cadence stroke oscillation pulsation wave rhythm vibration tempo palpitation heart rate pulse rate
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Antonyms

dally still soft delay mild quiet
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Hypernyms

make rate create move produce wave

Hyponyms

stroke pounding throbbing throb diastole systole

Phrases with the word

pulse ratio sound pulse his pulse human pulse pulse frequency pulse repetition frequency

Anagrams

Lepus Plues pusle spule

Examples

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. George Gissing

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse. Marianne Williamson

Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause. Edward Young

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. Gertrude Stein

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. Robert Fulghum

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. Sarah Bernhardt

Close letter words and terms

pulsative pulsator pulsatory pulse amplitude selector pulse analyzer pulse beat