pulse
/pʌls/ verb C2- To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
- To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
- To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
- To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
- To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
- To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate. · Hot blood pulsed through my veins as I grew angrier.· The streets were dark, and all that could be seen was light pulsing from the disco.
- Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
He/she/it pulses · Past pulsed · Past participle pulsed · -ing form pulsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- pulse
- He/she/it
- pulses
- Past
- pulsed
- Past participle
- pulsed
- -ing form
- pulsing
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“No, indeed,—I am calm,” said Morrel, giving his hand to the count; “my pulse does not beat slower or faster than usual.
It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
Rachel came, wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses splashed with ruddy evening sunshine; so that good lady had an excellent chance to talk her illness fully over, describing every ache and pulse beat with such evident enjoyment that Marilla thought even grippe must bring its compensations.
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