Meanings
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1
noun
The regular beating of blood through your body, which you can feel at your wrist or neck.
The nurse checked the patient's pulse.
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2
noun
A single strong beat or throb, or a regular series of them.
She could feel the steady pulse of the music in her chest.
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3
noun
A short burst of energy such as light or radio waves.
The laser sends out short pulses of light.
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4
verb
To beat or move in a steady, rhythmic way.
The whole club seemed to pulse with the beat of the bass.
Thesaurus
Etymology
From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eje…