Meaning of "pulse" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PULSE

Pous, from Latin pulsus a beating, from pellere to beat.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PULSE

pulse  [pʌls]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PULSE

Pulse is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pulse in English.

WHAT DOES PULSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pulse

In medicine, one's pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the heartbeat by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed against a bone, such as at the neck, on the inside of the elbow, at the wrist, at the groin, behind the knee, near the ankle joint, and on foot. Pulse is equivalent to measuring the heart rate. The heart rate can also be measured by listening to the heart beat directly, traditionally using a stethoscope and counting it for a minute. The study of the pulse is known as sphygmology.

Definition of pulse in the English dictionary

The first definition of pulse in the dictionary is the rhythmic contraction and expansion of an artery at each beat of the heart, often discernible to the touch at points such as the wrists. Other definition of pulse is a single pulsation of the heart or arteries. Pulse is also a transient sharp change in voltage, current, or some other quantity normally constant in a system.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PULSE

PRESENT

Present

I pulse

you pulse

he/she/it pulses

we pulse

you pulse

they pulse

Present continuous

I am pulsing

you are pulsing

he/she/it is pulsing

we are pulsing

you are pulsing

they are pulsing

Present perfect

I have pulsed

you have pulsed

he/she/it has pulsed

we have pulsed

you have pulsed

they have pulsed

Present perfect continuous

I have been pulsing

you have been pulsing

he/she/it has been pulsing

we have been pulsing

you have been pulsing

they have been pulsing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I pulsed

you pulsed

he/she/it pulsed

we pulsed

you pulsed

they pulsed

Past continuous

I was pulsing

you were pulsing

he/she/it was pulsing

we were pulsing

you were pulsing

they were pulsing

Past perfect

I had pulsed

you had pulsed

he/she/it had pulsed

we had pulsed

you had pulsed

they had pulsed

Past perfect continuous

I had been pulsing

you had been pulsing

he/she/it had been pulsing

we had been pulsing

you had been pulsing

they had been pulsing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will pulse

you will pulse

he/she/it will pulse

we will pulse

you will pulse

they will pulse

Future continuous

I will be pulsing

you will be pulsing

he/she/it will be pulsing

we will be pulsing

you will be pulsing

they will be pulsing

Future perfect

I will have pulsed

you will have pulsed

he/she/it will have pulsed

we will have pulsed

you will have pulsed

they will have pulsed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been pulsing

you will have been pulsing

he/she/it will have been pulsing

we will have been pulsing

you will have been pulsing

they will have been pulsing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would pulse

you would pulse

he/she/it would pulse

we would pulse

you would pulse

they would pulse

Conditional continuous

I would be pulsing

you would be pulsing

he/she/it would be pulsing

we would be pulsing

you would be pulsing

they would be pulsing

Conditional perfect

I would have pulse

you would have pulse

he/she/it would have pulse

we would have pulse

you would have pulse

they would have pulse

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been pulsing

you would have been pulsing

he/she/it would have been pulsing

we would have been pulsing

you would have been pulsing

they would have been pulsing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you pulse
we let´s pulse
you pulse

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to pulse

Past participle

pulsed

Present Participle

pulsing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PULSE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pulse» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of pulse

beat · beating · oscillation · pulsate · pulsation · rhythm · stroke · throb · throbbing · tick · vibrate · vibration

TRANSLATION OF PULSE

Find out the translation of pulse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pulse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pulse» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 脉搏
• Translator English - Spanish: pulso
• English: pulse
• Translator English - Hindi: नाड़ी
• Translator English - Arabic: نَبْضَة
• Translator English - Russian: пульс
• Translator English - Portuguese: pulso
• Translator English - Bengali: নাড়ি
• Translator English - French: pouls
• Translator English - Malay: Nadi
• Translator English - German: Puls
• Translator English - Japanese: 脈拍
• Translator English - Korean: 맥박
• Translator English - Javanese: Pulsa
• Translator English - Vietnamese: mạch
• Translator English - Tamil: துடிப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: नाडी
• Translator English - Turkish: nabız
• Translator English - Italian: battito cardiaco
• Translator English - Polish: puls
• Translator English - Ukrainian: пульс
• Translator English - Romanian: puls
• Translator English - Greek: σφυγμός
• Translator English - Afrikaans: pols
• Translator English - Swedish: puls
• Translator English - Norwegian: puls

10 QUOTES WITH «PULSE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pulse.

1

Phil Anselmo

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

2

Steve Ballmer

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.

3

Pat Benatar

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

4

Sarah Bernhardt

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

5

Clayton Christensen

I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.

6

James Cosmo

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

7

Frank Delaney

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

8

Bernard DeVoto

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

9

Robert Fripp

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

10

Robert Fulghum

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULSE»

Discover the use of pulse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pulse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences

This book offers a complete guide that can help the scientists, engineers, clinicians, and technologists in the field of MRI understand and better employ their scanner. ·Explains pulse sequences, their components, and the associated image ...

Matt A. Bernstein, Kevin F. King, Xiaohong Joe Zhou, 2004

The Inner Pulse: Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and ...

The inner pulse is the essence that links the soul to the mind and body, the marker that predicts whether a person's life force is fading or strengthening. This book shows you how to tap into your inner pulse and even how to influence it.

Marc Siegel, 2011

Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by

In Pulse, Robert Frenay details the coming world of • emotional computers • ships that swim like fish • hard, soft, and wet artificial life • money that mimics the energy flows in nature • evolution at warp speed And these are not ...

Robert Frenay, 2006

Pulse

When a killer who blurs the line between male and female, human and monster returns with a vengeance after a 10-year hiatus, homicide detective turned P.I. Frank Morgan must stop the killing once and for all.

John Lutz, 2012

Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track ...

This is no small feat, and readers will be rewarded with many more and highly practical insights."—Daniel Hofmann, Group Chief Economist, Zurich Financial Services "Doug Hubbard has written the first comprehensive book about the social ...

Douglas W. Hubbard, 2011

Pulse

This is the dream of Richard Ridley, founder of Manifold Genetics, and he has just discovered the key to eternal life: an ancient artifact buried beneath a Greek-inscribed stone in the Peruvian desert.

Jeremy Robinson, 2010

Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom

This book attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy, which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of traditional philosophy.

Roy Bhaskar, 1993

Secrets of the Pulse: The Ancient Art of Ayurvedic Pulse ...

For the first time in the west this book presents this ancient are and provides a method by which anyone can learn to read his or her own pulse.

Vasant Lad, 2005

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, 2e serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultra short laser pulses and describes how this technology can be used to examine problems in areas such as electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics.

Jean-Claude Diels, Wolfgang Rudolph, Paul F. Liao, 2006

Pulse Foods: Processing, Quality and Nutraceutical Applications

Pulse Foods: Processing, Quality and Nutraceutical Applications is the first book to provide up-to-date information on novel and emerging technologies for the processing of whole pulses, techniques for fractionating pulses into ingredients, ...

Brijesh K. Tiwari, Aoife Gowen, Brian McKenna, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PULSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pulse is used in the context of the following news items.

VP Binay most trusted gov't official; PNoy is second —Pulse Asia

Binay recorded "the only majority trust rating" in this quarter with 57 percent, 15 points higher than his 42 percent trust rating in March, Pulse Asia said. «GMA News, Jun 15»

Grace Poe overtakes Binay in latest presidential survey

The survey conducted by Pulse Asia from May 30 to June 5 showed Poe with a ... Pulse Asia's latest May-June survey also showed Davao City Mayor Rodrigo ... «Rappler, Jun 15»

LinkedIn relaunches Pulse to become 'world's first personalized …

LinkedIn, the business-focused social network, has redesigned and relaunched its Pulse news app for iOS and Android — and the focus is very much on ... «VentureBeat, Jun 15»

Report: Air Force Chooses Missile to Carry Computer-Killing Weapon

The Air Force has reportedly picked Lockheed Martin's long-range Joint Air-to-Surface Missile to carry a new “superweapon' – a pulse-generated beam weapon ... «Newsmax, May 15»

Parties' pledges on GP numbers 'only achievable by 2045'

... patient care.' A survey by Pulse last week revealed that one in ten GP partner positions are currently vacant, an increase of 50% from last year. Pulse GP Jobs ... «Pulse, May 15»

GP vacancy rate at highest ever, with 50% rise in empty posts

Exclusive GPs are finding it increasingly harder to recruit, with almost one in ten GP partner positions currently vacant, shows a Pulse survey that calls into ... «Pulse, Apr 15»

Africa: End of the Commodity Super-Cycle Weighs on Growth

This downturn largely reflects the fall in the prices of oil and other commodities, notes Africa's Pulse, a twice-yearly World Bank Group analysis of the issues ... «World Bank Group, Apr 15»

Toddler survives 101 minutes without a pulse

"He did not have a pulse and he wasn't breathing on his own and he had no neurologic function. All of those things were being done for him... the CPR and the ... «WXIA-TV, Mar 15»

62% of Mindanao residents oppose BBL – Pulse Asia

MANILA, Philippines – If the results of the latest Pulse Asia Research Inc survey serve as any indication, the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) may have a ... «Rappler, Mar 15»

Pulse polio campaign

Polio drops will be administered to children below the age of five during the pulse polio mass immunisation drive in Ariyalur district on January 18 according to a ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»