1. the rhythmical throbbing of arteries produced by the regular contractions of the heart, especially as palpated at the wrist or in the neck.
2. A regular or rhythmical beating.
3. A single beat or throb.
4. physics A brief sudden change in a normally constant quantity: a pulse of current; a pulse of radiation.
5. physics any of a series of intermittent occurrences characterized by a brief sudden change in a quantity.
6. the perceptible emotions or sentiments of a group of people: "a man who had . . . his finger on the pulse of america” ( Thomas P. O'Neill, jr.)
7. to pulsate; beat: "the nation pulsed with music and proclamation, with rages and moral pretensions” ( lance morrow).
8. physics to undergo a series of intermittent occurrences characterized by brief, sudden changes in a quantity.
9. take the pulse of to judge the mood or views of (a political electorate, for example): the politician was able to take the pulse of the grass-roots voters.
10. the edible seeds of certain pod-bearing plants, such as peas and beans.
11. A plant yielding these seeds.

1. 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.
2. A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
3. A beat or throb.
4. the beat or tactus of a piece of music.
5. to beat, to throb, to flash.
6. to flow, particularly of blood.
7. to emit in discrete quantities

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

1. to drive.
2. to drive by a pulsation of the heart.
3. to beat, as the arteries or heart.
4. 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.
5. specifically, in physiology, the series of rhythmically recurring maxima of fluid tension in any blood-vessel, consequent on the contractions of the heart.
6. in music, same as beat or accent.
7. figuratively, feeling; sentiment; general opinion, drift, tendency, or movement, private or public: as, the pulse of an occasion; the pulse of the community.
8. A frequent pulse.
9. an infrequent pulse.
10. the esculent seeds of leguminous plants cultivated as field or garden crops, as peas, beans, lentils, etc.
11. one of the plants producing pulse.
12. in physical, a proposed unit for the measurement of the time-integral of forces.

1. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
2. the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
3. edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
4. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
5. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
6. drive by or as if by pulsation
7. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically