The doctors noted irregular breathing movements and a possible heartbeat, although they could not detect a pulsebeat (The Warren Report).
Instead of capturing the hypnotic quality of Marquand's even-tempered prose, the writer may find he has only reproduced Marquand's low emotional pulsebeat (Time).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
pulse — English has two separate words pulse. The older, ‘seeds of beans, lentils, etc’ [13], comes via Old French pols from Latin puls ‘thick gruel (often made from beans and the like)’. This was a relative of Latin pollen ‘flour’ (source of English… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
pulse — English has two separate words pulse. The older, ‘seeds of beans, lentils, etc’ [13], comes via Old French pols from Latin puls ‘thick gruel (often made from beans and the like)’. This was a relative of Latin pollen ‘flour’ (source of English… … Word origins
Pulse — Pulse, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. ? to swing, shake, ? to shake. Cf. {Appeal}, {Compel}, {Impel}, {Push}.] 1. (Physiol.) The… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pulse glass — Pulse Pulse, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. ? to swing, shake, ? to shake. Cf. {Appeal}, {Compel}, {Impel}, {Push}.] 1. (Physiol.) … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pulse wave — Pulse Pulse, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. ? to swing, shake, ? to shake. Cf. {Appeal}, {Compel}, {Impel}, {Push}.] 1. (Physiol.) … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Beat induction — is the process in which a regular isochronous pulse is activated while one listens to music (i.e. the beat to which one would tap one’s foot). Interestingly, the cognitive mechanism that allows us to infer a beat from a sound pattern, and to… … Wikipedia
beat — [adj] very tired dog tired*, exhausted, fatigued, kaput*, wearied, weary, worn out; concepts 316,720 Ant. rested beat [n1] throbbing cadence, cadency, flow, flutter, measure, meter, oscillation, palpitation, pound, pressure, pulsation, pulse,… … New thesaurus
beat — vb 1 Beat, pound, pummel, thrash, buffet, baste, belabor are comparable when they mean to strike re peatedly. Beat, the usual and general word of this group, may imply no more than the simple action of repeated striking (as with one s hands or an … New Dictionary of Synonyms
pulse — Ⅰ. pulse [1] ► NOUN 1) the rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them. 2) each successive throb of the arteries. 3) a single vibration or short burst of sound, electric current, light, etc. 4) a musical beat or other… … English terms dictionary
Beat — may refer to: * Battery (crime), contact on another person in a manner likely to cause bodily harm * Beating upMusic* Beat (music), a pulse of sound that marks the metre or rhythm of a piece of music * Beatmatching, the aligning of the tempos of… … Wikipedia
