noun. The edible seeds of certain pod-bearing plants, such as lentils and chickpeas.

noun. A plant yielding these seeds.

noun. The rhythmical throbbing of arteries produced by the regular contractions of the heart, especially as palpated at the wrist or in the neck.

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noun. A regular or rhythmical beating.

noun. A single beat or throb.

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noun. A brief sudden change in a normally constant quantity.

noun. Any of a series of intermittent occurrences characterized by a brief sudden change in a quantity.

noun. The perceptible emotions or sentiments of a group of people.

intransitive verb. To pulsate; beat.

intransitive verb. To undergo a series of intermittent occurrences characterized by brief, sudden changes in a quantity.

idiom. (take the pulse of) To judge the mood or views of (a political electorate, for example).

To drive.

To drive by a pulsation of the heart.

To beat, as the arteries or heart.

noun. In physical, a proposed unit for the measurement of the time-integral of forces.

noun. A beat; a stroke; especially, a measured, regular, or rhythmical beat; a short, quick motion regularly repeated, as in a medium of the transmission of light, sound, etc.; a pulsation; a vibration.

noun. Specifically, in physiology, the series of rhythmically recurring maxima of fluid tension in any blood-vessel, consequent on the contractions of the heart.

noun. In music, same as beat or accent.

noun. Figuratively, feeling; sentiment; general opinion, drift, tendency, or movement, private or public: as, the pulse of an occasion; the pulse of the community.

noun. A frequent pulse.

noun. An infrequent pulse.

noun. The esculent seeds of leguminous plants cultivated as field or garden crops, as peas, beans, lentils, etc.

noun. One of the plants producing pulse.

noun. Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

noun. The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

noun. 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.

noun. an instrument consisting to a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil; -- so called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when thus warmed.

noun. the wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches.

noun. Hence, to sound one's opinion; to try to discover one's mind.

transitive verb. To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

intransitive verb. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

noun. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.

noun. A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.

noun. A beat or throb.

noun. The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

verb. to beat, to throb, to flash.

verb. to flow, particularly of blood.

verb. to emit in discrete quantities

noun. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

noun. the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

noun. edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

verb. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses

noun. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

verb. drive by or as if by pulsation

verb. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically

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