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How to pronounce pulse
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What does pulse mean?
nounA normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.
“Her pulse was thready and weak.”
The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
“Her pulse was 110 at 8 a.m.”
A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
verbTo emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
“Though a light of love she swimmeth, / Zoned with utterless desire, / And the air of her swift coming / Through thy hot veins pulseth fire.”
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.
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