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Definition of Pulsate
1. Verb. Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically. "The streets pulsate with crowds"; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
Related verbs: Beat, Quiver
Generic synonyms: Beat, Pound, Thump
Derivative terms: Pulsation, Pulse, Pulse, Pulse, Pulse, Throb
2. Verb. Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion. "The city pulsated with music and excitement"
3. Verb. Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses. "A transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
Generic synonyms: Create, Make, Produce
Derivative terms: Pulsation, Pulse, Pulse, Pulsing
Definition of Pulsate
1. v. i. To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
Definition of Pulsate
1. Verb. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat. ¹
2. Verb. To quiver, vibrate, thrill. ¹
3. Verb. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulsate
1. to expand and contract rhythmically [v -SATED, -SATING, -SATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulsate
Literary usage of Pulsate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Stars Within Two Degrees of the North Pole Deduced from by Caroline Ellen Furness (1905)
"Disks which have been cut, or pressed, as described above do not pulsate until
... These will pulsate continuously in sea-water. point by a touch of some ..."
2. Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical Anatomy by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"If, now, the auriculo-ventricular junction be divided, the ventricle begins to
pulsate, partly because the procedure stimulates Bidder's ganglion, ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1891)
"diately in this arrest, but continues to pulsate for a few minutes, and when,
finally, it also stops, it is much distended with blood. ..."
4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1906)
"Thus, Cassiopea will pulsate in a pure ^ normal NaCl solution for half an hour,
... Thus, Cassiopea will pulsate longer than an hour in a solution ..."
5. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"Pulse (i), a throb, vibration ; see pulsate. Pulse (2), grain or seed of beans,
pease, &c. (L.) ME/tt/J. Impuls, a thick pap or pottage made of meal, pulse, ..."
6. A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Edward Henry Gordon (1891)
"APPARATUS FOR CAUSING BODIES TO pulsate IN EITHER PHASE. This difficulty led me
to construct an instrument for the production of two sets of vibrations, ..."
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