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pulsate


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pulsate  \Pul"sate\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pulsated};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Pulsating}.]  [L.  pulsatus  p.  p.  of  pulsare  to  beat 
  strike,  v.  intens.  fr  pellere  to  beat  strike,  drive.  See 
  {Pulse}  a  beating,  and  cf  {Pulse},  v.] 
  To  throb,  as  a  pulse;  to  beat  as  the  heart. 
 
  The  heart  of  a  viper  or  frog  will  continue  to  pulsate 
  long  after  it  is  taken  from  the  body.  --E.  Darwin. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pulsate 
  v  1:  expand  and  contract  rhythmically;  beat  rhythmically;  "The 
  city  pulsed  with  with  music  and  excitement"  [syn:  {throb}, 
  {pulse}] 
  2:  produce  or  modulate  (as  electromagnetic  waves)  in  the  form 
  of  short  bursts  or  pulses;  "pulse  waves,"  or  cause  an 
  apparatus  to  produce  pulses:  "a  transmitter  pulsed  by  an 
  electronic  tube"  [syn:  {pulse}] 




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