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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#m1)

2) A pulse is one short beat, burst of light, sound or energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#m2)

3) Pulses are seeds you can eat, like lentils, beans and peas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#m3)

4) To pulse is to beat or throb in a steady rhythm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#m4)

5) Calling someone my pulse is an old, loving name for a person you dearly love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x1)
- After running, his pulse went up by 30 beats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x2)
- How many times does a heart with a pulse of 70 beat in 5 minutes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x3)
- Count your pulse for 15 seconds and multiply by 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x4)
- Put two fingers on your wrist to feel your pulse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x5)
- The doctor checked my pulse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x6)
- Lentils and chickpeas are pulses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x7)
- The music pulsed through the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x8)
- Her pulse raced when the lights went out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x9)
- “Is this true, my pulse?” he murmured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/13/)
- [Each heartbeat squeezes blood out and sends a wave along the arteries, which you feel as your pulse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/5/)
- [Nurses check temperature, pulse and breathing regularly, even at night, and being woken for checks doesn't mean something is wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/5/)
- [Galileo noticed this watching a swinging lamp in a cathedral, timing it with his pulse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/7/)
- [Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure the heart's signals with stickers on the chest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pulse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.