pulse

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

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.