pulse
English
/pʌls/, /pʊls/
noun
Definitions
- (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
- A beat or throb.
- (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
- An autosoliton
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pulse derived from Latin pulsus (beat, pulse) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pel (flour, dust, drive, strike, thrust).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pel
Gloss
flour, dust, drive, strike, thrust
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
粉
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aeropulse English
- afterpulse English
- attopulse English
- beat English
- electropulse English
- interpulse English
- intrapulse English
- jet English
- macropulse English
- micropulse English
- monopulse English
- multipulse English
- nanopulse English
- nonpulse English
- overpulse English
- photopulse English
- postpulse English
- prepulse English
- pulsable English
- pulsebeat English
- pulsejet English
- pulseless English
- pulselessness English
- pulselike English
- pulser English
- pulsetrain English
- pulsewidth English
- pulsific English
- pulsimeter English
- quadripulse English
- subpulse English
- train English
- underpulse English
- wave English
- wavepulse English
- width English
- pellō Latin
- pulsio, pulsiōnem, pulsiō Latin
- pulsus Latin
- polso Italian
- puls Dutch, Flemish
- pulskor Dutch, Flemish
- pouls French
- pulso Spanish, Castilian
- πόλτος Ancient Greek
- *pel Proto-Indo-European
- puls Norwegian Bokmål
- pulso Portuguese
- puls Norwegian Nynorsk
- pulse Middle English
- pulz Czech
- pols Catalan, Valencian
- púls Icelandic
- pols Middle Dutch
- pouls Norman
- puls Middle High German
- pols Friulian
- pusu Sicilian
- jet
- beat
- wave
- width
- train
- pulser
- pulsific
- pulsable
- pulsejet
- prepulse
- subpulse
- nonpulse
- pulseless
- pulsebeat
- wavepulse
- postpulse
- overpulse
- attopulse
- nanopulse
- pulselike
- monopulse
- aeropulse
- intrapulse
- photopulse
- interpulse
- macropulse
- multipulse
- pulsimeter
- underpulse
- afterpulse
- micropulse
- pulsetrain
- pulsewidth
- quadripulse
- electropulse
- pulselessness