Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To beat or throb, as the heart or a blood-vessel; contract and dilate in alternation or rhythmically, as the heart in systole and diastole, the disk of a jellyfish in swimming, the vacuoles in some protozoans, etc.
Wiktionary
- v. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
- v. To quiver, vibrate, thrill.
- v. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
WordNet 3.0
- v. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- v. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
- v. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
Etymologies
- From Latin pulsātiō ("repeated striking"), from pulsō ("strike repeatedly"), from pellō ("strike") (Wiktionary)
- Latin pulsāre, pulsāt-, frequentative of pellere, to beat; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“· Feature: made the "pulsate" effect aware of the time, especially enabled”
“By night, its harbor area resembles Ibiza's West End, with multi-story nightclubs dominating streets that pulsate with house music.”
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“By night, its harbor area resembles Ibiza's West End, with multi-story nightclubs dominating rows of streets that pulsate with house music while beautiful people dance the night away.”
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“The brightness of the creatures suddenly intensified, and their color patters began to reverse and pulsate.”
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“Keep throwing the truth at this material and it will sweat and twitch and stutter and tremor and pulsate and eventually melt.”
“Visitors step into a dark, cavernous room where neon red, green and blue flashes pulsate from video slots.”
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“During his supplication, Otis's arm began to pulsate with an emotion he attributed to the Holy Spirit.”
“As the song goes on, her neuroses pulsate to the bongo drum and xylophone accompaniment.”
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“As children of immigrants we carry our mother's sacrifices inside of us, they pulsate through our blood, they remain in our hearts and they whisper in our ears with every decision we make.”
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“Toothbruhes come in all sizes and colors — some spin and others pulsate.”
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