Definition of Pulse

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Definition of Pulse

Pulse

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.

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Pulse Quotations

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Thomas Hardy

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
Vince McMahon

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
Steve Ballmer

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
Steve Ballmer

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
Christian Lous Lange

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.
Brit Hume

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.
Sharon Gless

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Pulse Translations

pulse in Dutch is pols, polsslag, tel
pulse in French is pouls
pulse in German is pulsieren, Impuls, Puls
pulse in Italian is polso
pulse in Norwegian is puls
pulse in Portuguese is pulso
pulse in Spanish is pulso
pulse in Swedish is pulsera, puls

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