Pulse: Definition and part of speech

Pulse

  1. v. t. To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
  2. n. Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
  3. n. The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
  4. n. 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.
  5. v. i. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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