How to pronounce “pulse”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (physiology)
• (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
• (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
• (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
• (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
• (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
• (physics)
• (transport) A timed, coordinated connection, when multiple public transportation vehicles are at a hub at the same time so that passengers can flexibly connect between them.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
• (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) 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.
• (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
• (transitive, electronics, physics)
• (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
• (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.

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