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PULSE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

Example:

he could feel the beat of her heart

Synonyms:

beat; heartbeat; pulsation; pulse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pulse" is a kind of...):

periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulse"):

diastole (the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood)

systole (the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery)

pounding; throb; throbbing (an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart))

Derivation:

pulsate; pulse (expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

Example:

the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star

Synonyms:

impulse; pulsation; pulse; pulsing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pulse" is a kind of...):

undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)

Domain category:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Derivation:

pulsate; pulse (produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pulse" is a kind of...):

legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))

Sense 4

Meaning:

The rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

Synonyms:

heart rate; pulse; pulse rate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("pulse" is a kind of...):

vital sign (sign of life; usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition)

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulse"):

femoral pulse (pulse of the femoral artery (felt in the groin))

radial pulse (pulse of the radial artery (felt in the wrist))

Derivation:

pulsate; pulse (expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses

Example:

a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube

Synonyms:

pulsate; pulse

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "pulse" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

pulse; pulsing ((electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically

Example:

The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it

Synonyms:

pulsate; pulse; throb

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pulse" is one way to...):

beat; pound; thump (move rhythmically)

Verb group:

beat; pulsate; quiver (move with or as if with a regular alternating motion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

The crowds pulse in the streets

The streets pulse with crowds

Derivation:

pulse (the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart)

pulse (the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Drive by or as if by pulsation

Example:

A soft breeze pulsed the air

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pulse" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Cause:

pulsate; pulse; throb (expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Upon administration, AFP peptide-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine may stimulate anti-tumoral cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) and antibody responses against AFP-expressing cancer cells, resulting in tumor cell lysis.

(Alpha-fetoprotein Peptide-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

PBLs are isolated from a melanoma patient and pulsed with a viral vector that encodes the TCR specific for an epitope of MART-1 (F5 TCR).

(Autologous Anti-MART-1 F5 T-Cell Receptor Gene-Engineered Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell-based vaccine composed of autologous dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with lysates from heat-treated allogeneic melanoma tumor cells.

(Autologous Dendritic Cell-Allogeneic Melanoma Tumor Cell Lysate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell-based cancer vaccine composed of autologous dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with lysate from autologous lymphoma cells with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Autologous Lymphoma Cell Lysate-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

PBLs are isolated from a melanoma patient and pulsed with a viral vector encoding the TCR specific for amino acid residues 154-162 of gp100 (KTWGQYWQV).

(Autologous Anti-gp100:154-162 T-Cell Receptor Gene-Engineered Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

The alphaDC1 are subsequently pulsed with apoptotic autologous tumor cells.

(Apoptotic Autologous Tumor Cells-pulsed Alpha-type-1 Polarized Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

When pulsed with specific tumor associated antigens (TAAs), alphaDC1 is able to induce a potent cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response against TAAs; as a result it can be used as a cancer vaccine.

(Alpha-type-1 Polarized Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous PBLs from a patient with Her-2-positive cancer are pulsed with a retroviral vector that encodes the CAR gene specific for Her-2.

(Anti-Her-2-CAR Retroviral Vector-Transduced Autologous Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) from a patient with VEGFR2-positive cancer are pulsed with a retroviral vector that encodes the CAR gene specific for VEGFR2.

(Anti-VEGFR2-CAR Retroviral Vector-transduced Autologous T-lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Exosomes derived from autologous maturing dendritic cells (DCs) are pulsed with HLA-DP04-restricted MAGE-3, and HLA-A02-restricted peptides NY-ESO-1, MAGE-1, MAGE-3, and MART-1.

(NSCLC Antigen-Loaded Dendritic Cell-derived Exosomes, NCI Thesaurus)