pulse

«pulse» in Mova's school dictionary: the beat of your heart that you can feel on your wrist or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (pulse, pulses); verb (pulse, pulses, pulsed, pulsing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Your pulse is the beat of your heart that you can feel on your wrist or neck. tree →

2) A pulse is one short beat, burst of light, sound or energy. tree →

3) Pulses are seeds you can eat, like lentils, beans and peas. tree →

4) To pulse is to beat or throb in a steady rhythm. tree →

5) Calling someone my pulse is an old, loving name for a person you dearly love. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a rate: beats per minute; problems ask how many beats in a number of minutes or seconds; count for 15 seconds and multiply by 4. In science and PE: pulse goes up with exercise and down with rest; a healthy child's resting pulse is often about 70 to 110. In food: pulses are rich in protein. In stories: «her pulse raced».

examples

• Her pulse is 80 beats a minute. tree →
• After running, his pulse went up by 30 beats. tree →
• How many times does a heart with a pulse of 70 beat in 5 minutes? tree →
• Count your pulse for 15 seconds and multiply by 4. tree →
• Put two fingers on your wrist to feel your pulse. tree →
• The doctor checked my pulse. tree →
• Lentils and chickpeas are pulses. tree →
• The music pulsed through the hall. tree →
• Her pulse raced when the lights went out. tree →
• “Is this true, my pulse?” he murmured. tree →

note

A pulse is given as beats per minute, a rate: beats = pulse × minutes. Trap: if the pulse is counted for 15 or 30 seconds, change it to a full minute first (× 4 or × 2). Feel a pulse with fingers, not the thumb, because the thumb has its own pulse. «Pulses» (food) is a different meaning.

In the corpora

• Almost everyone can learn to dance with practice and by listening for the beat, the steady pulse of the music.
• Each heartbeat squeezes blood out and sends a wave along the arteries, which you feel as your pulse.
• Nurses check temperature, pulse and breathing regularly, even at night, and being woken for checks doesn't mean something is wrong.
• Galileo noticed this watching a swinging lamp in a cathedral, timing it with his pulse.
• Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure the heart's signals with stickers on the chest.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pulse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.