pulse

pulse is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
2. noun. The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
3. 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.
4. intransitive verb. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
5. transitive verb. To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
6. noun. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

   "he could feel the beat of her heart"

   Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation

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

   "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"

   Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulsing

8. noun. edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
9. noun. the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
10. verb. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses

    "pulse waves"

    "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"

    Synonyms: pulsate

11. verb. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically

    "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"

    Synonyms: pulsate, throb

12. verb. drive by or as if by pulsation

    "A soft breeze pulsed the air"

Synonyms

beat, heartbeat, pulsation, impulse, pulsing, pulsate, throb

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pulse:

lepus, pules

Common word forms

pulsed, pulser, pulses, pulsing, pulseless

Words from these letters

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