Definitions for pulse

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pulse pulse

Spelling: [puhls]

IPA: /pʌls/

Pulse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in pulse (elpsu).

Definitions for pulse

noun

1. the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
2. a single pulsation, or beat or throb, of the arteries or heart.
3. the rhythmic recurrence of strokes, vibrations, or undulations.
4. a single stroke, vibration, or undulation.
5. Electricity. a momentary, sudden fluctuation in an electrical quantity, as in voltage or current.
6. Physics. a single, abrupt emission of particles or radiation.
7. a throb of life, emotion, etc.
8. vitality.
9. the general attitude, sentiment, preference, etc., as of the public.
10. the edible seeds of certain leguminous plants, as peas, beans, or lentils.
11. a plant producing such seeds.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to pulse.
2. Medicine/Medical. to administer (medication) in interrupted, often concentrated dosages to avoid unwanted side effects.

verb (used without object)

1. to beat or throb; pulsate.
2. to beat, vibrate, or undulate.
3. Physics. to emit particles or radiation periodically in short bursts.

Origin of pulse

1300-50; Latin pulsus a beat, equivalent to *peld-, base of pellere to set in motion by beating or striking (cf. impel) + -tus, suffix of v. action, with dt s and ba

Examples for pulse

Never had the pulse beat stronger in my veins then at that moment.

Dico that the pulse of this gentleman is the pulse of a man who is not well.

The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

This pulse is trifling with me; I see that it does not know me yet.

Add the water mixture all at once and pulse until the mixture just comes together.

I laughed out of sheer inanity; every pulse in my body was throbbing.

“There was still no pulse, not even the smallest bit,” Johnson says.

The pulse of the music gives the film a thrilling kind of unity.

However, in calm, deep wave sleep, breathing and pulse is slow and regular, and movements are more than rare, he says.

The Little Doctor was counting his pulse, and waited till she had finished.