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Pulsate

verb
(past & past part. pulsated; pres. part. pulsating)
1.
Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.  Synonyms: pulse, throb.
2.
Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.  Synonyms: beat, quiver.
3.
Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses.  Synonym: pulse.  "A transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"






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"Pulsate" Quotes from Famous Books



... fresh thought came to him,—one which made the blood run more quickly through his veins and caused his heart to pulsate with quite a foolish joy. If—if she had indeed gone away out of a sweet womanly wish to save him from what she imagined might cause him embarrassment or perplexity, then—then surely she cared! Yes—she must care for him greatly as a friend,—though only as a friend—to be willing to ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... where the ivy had crept over the top of the casement and covered his ceiling with a web of leaves. Shortly he was reposing upon his pillow, over which his holy-water font—a large crimson heart of crystal with flames of burnished gold, set upon a tablet of white marble—seemed almost to pulsate in the ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... differing from the next one by only a small portion of a wave length; the larger their number the better theoretically. The reason is that with a few currents the resulting magnetism generated in the motor by these currents will pulsate considerably, as shown in Fig. 3, in which the two full lines show the currents differing by 90 degrees. The dotted line above these shows how much the resulting magnetism will pulsate. With two such currents this variation in magnetism will be about 40 degrees ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 822 - Volume XXXII, Number 822. Issue Date October 3, 1891 • Various

... in breathless haste. In going down to the second floor, he found a piano open and new music upon it, which Miss Ludolph had evidently been trying; but she was not there. Yet a peculiar delicate perfume which the young lady always used pervaded the place, even as her song had seemed to pulsate through the air after it had ceased. She could not be far off. Stepping to a picture show-room over the front door, Dennis found her sitting quietly before a large painting, sketching one of the figures ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe



Words linked to "Pulsate" :   make, quiver, produce, create, move, pound, thump, pulsation



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