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pulse
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Word definitions for pulse in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulse \Pulse\, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. ? to swing, shake, ? to shake. Cf. Appeal , Compel , Impel , Push .] (Physiol.) The beating ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a throb, a beat," early 14c., from Old French pous , pulse (late 12c., Modern French pouls ) and directly from Latin pulsus (in pulsus venarum "beating from the blood in the veins"), past participle of pellere "to push, drive," from PIE *pel- (6) "to thrust, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sb’s heart/pulse rate (= the number of beats per minute ) ▪ A miner’s resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute. your heart/pulse/breathing quickens (= your heart beats faster because you are afraid, ...
Usage examples of pulse.
It was as if the armor itself was alive, pulsing with preternatural light.
The antipyretic was controlling his temperature, but his pulse was fluttering and growing steadily weaker.
She screamed, feeling the hard jets of his semen as she climaxed around his flesh, her hips arching, her clit erupting in pleasure, lava thundered through her veins, bubbling with the fierce ecstasy as she pulsed around him, milking his cock, soaking his flesh.
There was no pulse in the wrists, no heartbeat in the architrave under the breast.
The next possibility is this: we shall send a seeker pulse train to Earth, arriving continually every 15 seconds between 5:30 and 6:00 p.
I suspect that what few nanites Pek has managed to bring back on-line will be assimilated, now that the microwave pulse is nonfunctional and the Ushekti nanites are no longer isolated.
A dark purple fluid appeared to pulse in the tortuous anastomoses of channels which lay under the surface.
Its medicinal action is astringent, with a reduced frequency of the pulse, and some gentle sedative effects, so that any tendency to coughing, etc.
The bacteria that have tapped into your nerve fiber in the same way as an eavesdropping device might tap into a phone line, intercept these pulses, convert them into infrared radiation that is transmitted to another group of bacteria located a few dozen feet from you, those other bacteria pass it on to yet another group, and so on.
We could also assume that one of the cyborg-bacteria has hooked up to his auditory nerve in the same way as it did to yours, the only difference being that your bacteria is recording electrical pulses coming from your ear, while his bacteria is reproducing these pulses, inducing them in his auditory nerve.
He had interrupted, sending an urgent call of his own pulsing upward to the station while Benj was still taking.
Sir Blays knelt beside the fallen warrior and checked his pulse and breathing.
She waited, still in concealment, until bright lights blossomed around the trailing edges of the fins, pulsing in a danger array.
Gently, yet deliberately, Brok drove himself near to madness by moving her fingers along his pulsing length.
Just a little joy to still set my pulses all a-thrill, Then back to brutish labour once again.