Pulse
noun
The rhythm of the heart as felt through the walls of arteries, especially the wrist.
The doctor checked the patient's pulse.
Often appears as...
- take a pulse
- pulse rate
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Technical
noun
A single vibration or shot of sound, light or electromagnetic wave.
The radar sends out a pulse of radio waves.
Often appears as...
- pulse of light
- pulse wave
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Technical
noun
The seeds of plants such as beans, lentils, and peas, used as food.
She added some pulses to her soup to make it more hearty.
Often appears as...
- legume pulse
- pulse crop
noun
A brief surge of energy or activity.
There was a pulse of excitement in the crowd.
Often appears as...
- pulse of energy
- pulse of life
verb
To produce an regular rhythm or pattern of movement.
The music pulsed to the beat of the drums.
Often appears as...
- pulse to the music
- pulse with light
noun
The rhythm of the heart as felt through the walls of arteries, especially the wrist.
The doctor checked the patient's pulse.
Often appears as...
- take a pulse
- pulse rate
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A single vibration or shot of sound, light or electromagnetic wave.
The radar sends out a pulse of radio waves.
Often appears as...
- pulse of light
- pulse wave
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The seeds of plants such as beans, lentils, and peas, used as food.
She added some pulses to her soup to make it more hearty.
Often appears as...
- legume pulse
- pulse crop
noun
A brief surge of energy or activity.
There was a pulse of excitement in the crowd.
Often appears as...
- pulse of energy
- pulse of life
verb
To produce an regular rhythm or pattern of movement.
The music pulsed to the beat of the drums.
Often appears as...
- pulse to the music
- pulse with light
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Pro Tip 1/3Locating Pulse
Pulse is often felt on the wrist or neck where arteries are close to the skin.
She placed two fingers on her wrist to locate her pulse.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Indicator
A pulse can indicate health status; rapid or slow rates may suggest medical conditions.
The nurse noted his rapid pulse was a sign of fever.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Exertion
Pulse quickens with exercise or excitement and slows with rest or relaxation.
After jogging, his pulse was fast but soon slowed with rest.
Pro Tip 1/3Locating Pulse
Pulse is often felt on the wrist or neck where arteries are close to the skin.
She placed two fingers on her wrist to locate her pulse.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Indicator
A pulse can indicate health status; rapid or slow rates may suggest medical conditions.
The nurse noted his rapid pulse was a sign of fever.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Exertion
Pulse quickens with exercise or excitement and slows with rest or relaxation.
After jogging, his pulse was fast but soon slowed with rest.
Pro Tip 1/3Locating Pulse
Pulse is often felt on the wrist or neck where arteries are close to the skin.
She placed two fingers on her wrist to locate her pulse.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Indicator
A pulse can indicate health status; rapid or slow rates may suggest medical conditions.
The nurse noted his rapid pulse was a sign of fever.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Exertion
Pulse quickens with exercise or excitement and slows with rest or relaxation.
After jogging, his pulse was fast but soon slowed with rest.
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How to track a tornado -...
is it needs to be oriented vertically, because that's what tornadoes are doing, and it needs to orientated vertically near the ground. So we think this rear-flank downdraft just pulses. And these pulses in this rear-flank downdraft, we think, are very important for converging that rotation, but also getting that rotation into the right place. Other things we've learned
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How whales breathe,...
which is making these series of pulses, and it uses it like a bat uses sonar. Well, a bat uses radar, but when it's underwater it's sonar, so this animal is using sonar to see its world in sound. Trying to understand how this works, you have to look at it as if you were looking at the amplifier speakers of a sound system.
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How exactly does binary...
Then, a video driver program transmits this information to the millions of liquid crystals in your screen to make all the different hues you see now. The sound in this video is also stored in binary, with the help of a technique called pulse code modulation. Continuous sound waves are digitized
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I grew up in the...
when I was desperately hoping there was a way I could stay with my family. People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read. She said, "You're just a human being,
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Why do whales sing? -...
pulses, whistles, groans, boings, cries, and trills, to name a few. But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals, whales. Whale songs are one of the most sophisticated communication systems
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Welcome to the internet...
back to the cloud now when you start aggregating all this information across an entire city not only can you start visualizing the patterns of movement across an entire city the pulse of the city in the mornings the afternoons and the evenings but more importantly you
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Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...
cephalopod's life we're you know watching the mother until she starts going through her egg laying phase and once she starts laying her eggs she'll sit there and pulse jets of water over her eggs what that does is basically keep them oxygenated and
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What causes kidney...
can help dissolve the stones by creating a less acidic urine. For medium-sized stones up to about ten millimeters, one option is pulverizing them with soundwaves. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy uses high-intensity pulses
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Nuclear Explosion in the...
you need to know more about electromagnetic pulses how they work the damage they incur what you should not be scared of and what you should to help you separate the physics from the fiction is a briefing led by physicist
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Buzz Words: The Bee...
of pulsed vibrations that honeybees use to communicate amongst each other what martin's saying is that he's writing the world's first b dictionary i like that expression yes
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How to track a tornado -...
is it needs to be oriented vertically, because that's what tornadoes are doing, and it needs to orientated vertically near the ground. So we think this rear-flank downdraft just pulses. And these pulses in this rear-flank downdraft, we think, are very important for converging that rotation, but also getting that rotation into the right place. Other things we've learned
Video examples
How whales breathe,...
which is making these series of pulses, and it uses it like a bat uses sonar. Well, a bat uses radar, but when it's underwater it's sonar, so this animal is using sonar to see its world in sound. Trying to understand how this works, you have to look at it as if you were looking at the amplifier speakers of a sound system.
Video examples
How exactly does binary...
Then, a video driver program transmits this information to the millions of liquid crystals in your screen to make all the different hues you see now. The sound in this video is also stored in binary, with the help of a technique called pulse code modulation. Continuous sound waves are digitized
Video examples
I grew up in the...
when I was desperately hoping there was a way I could stay with my family. People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read. She said, "You're just a human being,
Video examples
Why do whales sing? -...
pulses, whistles, groans, boings, cries, and trills, to name a few. But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals, whales. Whale songs are one of the most sophisticated communication systems
Video examples
Welcome to the internet...
back to the cloud now when you start aggregating all this information across an entire city not only can you start visualizing the patterns of movement across an entire city the pulse of the city in the mornings the afternoons and the evenings but more importantly you
Video examples
Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...
cephalopod's life we're you know watching the mother until she starts going through her egg laying phase and once she starts laying her eggs she'll sit there and pulse jets of water over her eggs what that does is basically keep them oxygenated and
Video examples
What causes kidney...
can help dissolve the stones by creating a less acidic urine. For medium-sized stones up to about ten millimeters, one option is pulverizing them with soundwaves. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy uses high-intensity pulses
Video examples
Nuclear Explosion in the...
you need to know more about electromagnetic pulses how they work the damage they incur what you should not be scared of and what you should to help you separate the physics from the fiction is a briefing led by physicist
Video examples
Buzz Words: The Bee...
of pulsed vibrations that honeybees use to communicate amongst each other what martin's saying is that he's writing the world's first b dictionary i like that expression yes
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The Ultimate Warrior
American Wrestler
Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.
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Sharon Gless
American Actress
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.
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R. Kelly
American Musician
I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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Tricia Griffith
American Businesswoman
Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.
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Mark Parker
American Businessman
When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.
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Gerrit Cole
American Athlete
There is nothing better than having your home crowd cheer you on and scream with you in big moments and get the crowd in the pulse of the game.
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Noel Edmonds
English Producer
I didn't say a pulsed electro-magnetic field cures cancer. I don't believe it does. All I said is that it will help tackle cancer.
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Rene Burri
Swiss Photographer
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
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Andrew Vachss
American Author
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
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Stephan Jenkins
American Musician
I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
Quote examples
The Ultimate Warrior
American Wrestler
Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.
Quote examples
Sharon Gless
American Actress
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.
Quote examples
R. Kelly
American Musician
I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
Quote examples
Tricia Griffith
American Businesswoman
Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.
Quote examples
Mark Parker
American Businessman
When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.
Quote examples
Gerrit Cole
American Athlete
There is nothing better than having your home crowd cheer you on and scream with you in big moments and get the crowd in the pulse of the game.
Quote examples
Noel Edmonds
English Producer
I didn't say a pulsed electro-magnetic field cures cancer. I don't believe it does. All I said is that it will help tackle cancer.
Quote examples
Rene Burri
Swiss Photographer
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
Quote examples
Andrew Vachss
American Author
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
Quote examples
Stephan Jenkins
American Musician
I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
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