Pulsate

Definition: Pulsate

Pulsate

Verb

1. Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The city pulsed with with music and excitement".

2. Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pulsate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Note: Pulsate \Pul"sate\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Pulsated; present participle verb or noun Pulsating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Pulsate

Agitation

Throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle.

Evolution

Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Verb: recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit.

Crosswords: Pulsate

Latin (beat, pulsate).

"Ellipsoid Pulsate" (movie) by Joe Seale. There is also a hi-res version. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

"Six Spheres Pulsate Colors" (movie) by Joe Seale. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A, B, C, or D. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

Some jellyfish pulsate to propel themselves through the water. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

rreh (palpitate, patter, pound, pump), dridhem (blink, dither, dodder, flicker, flinch, give a start, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, twiddle, twitch, vibrate, wabble, waver, wince, wobble, writhe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نبض (beat, pant, pulsatile, pulsation, pulse, stroke, throb), ‏تذبذب (balance, fluctuation, gyrate, oscillate, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, wave, waver, weave, whiffle, wiggle, wobble), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsation, throb, whip). (various references)

Bulgarian 

туптя (beat, go pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pulse, throb, vibrate), треперя (cower, dither, jitter, judder, niddle-noddle, palpitate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, thrill, tremble, tremor, vibrate, waver), вълнувам се (effervesce, flutter, get excited, roll, surge, take on, thrill, throb), вибрирам (jar, judder, oscillate, quiver, shimmy, tremble, tremor, vibrate), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), пулсирам (beat, palpitate, pulse, throb). (various references)

Chinese 

搏动 (Pulsated, Pulsating, pulsed, pulsing), 搏動 (beat rhythmically, throb). (various references)

Czech

pulsovat, tepat (castigate, laminate, lash, palpitate, throb), chvìt se (flutter, judder, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shudder, tingle, tremble, vibrate, waver). (various references)

Dutch

pulseren (throb), kloppen (be correct, be right, beat, come to an agreement, hit, knock, strike, throb). (various references)

Esperanto

pulsi (throb). (various references)

Finnish

tykyttää (beat, palpitate, throb), sykkiä (beat, throb). (various references)

French

palpiter, battre fort (pulse, pump). (various references)

German

pulsieren (pulsation, pulse, throb). (various references)

Greek 

πάλλω (brandish, palpitate, sway, throb, vibrate), πάλλομαι (palpitate, pulse, quaver), δονούμαι (quaver, throb, vibrate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפעום (beat, strike, throb). (various references)

Hungarian

ver (beat, beaten, hit, mint, strike, that licks creation, that licks everything, to bang, to beat, to braid, to flutter, to lash, to lay it on the lash, to mall, to mill, to pound, to pulsate, to throb, to thump, to whip), szitál (drizzle, riddle, sieve, sift, to drizzle, to garble, to haze, to jig, to screen, to sift, winnow), lüktet (palpitate, ripple, to palpitate, to pulsate, to throb). (various references)

Indonesian

berdenyut (beat, throb), berdebar (aflutter, palpitate, throb). (various references)

Italian

pulsare (beat, pulse, pump, throb), battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, pound, rap, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win). (various references)

Korean 

박동하십시�". (various references)

Manx

bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), builley (bash, beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, hit, impact, knock, madness, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, sweep, thump, toot, toot on horn, whack). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulsatepay

Portuguese

pulsar (pulse, pump, throb), palpitar (palpitate, pulse, quiver, throb). (various references)

Romanian

pulsa (beat, palpitate, pulse, throb), vibra (flutter, joggle, jolt, oscillate, pulse, quaver, quiver, rock, throb, vibrate), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst). (various references)

Russian 

биться (fight, palpitate, smash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pulsirati, trepereti (flicker, glisten, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, warble). (various references)

Spanish

palpitar (beat, flutter, heave, palpitate, pound, throb), vibrar (pulse, shake, throb, vibrate, waver), latir (beat, detonate, knock, pulse, throb), brillar de forma intermitente. (various references)

Swedish

pulsera (pulse, throb, vibrate). (various references)

Turkish

zonklamak (jump, shoot), titremek (dither, dodder, falter, flicker, flutter, jerk, judder, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), titreşmek (Bicker, flicker, judder, pulse, quiver, tremble, vibrate, waver), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb). (various references)

Ukrainian

трепетати, вібрувати (chatter, oscillate, pulse, shimmy, tremble, vibrate), пульсувати (beat, palpitate, pulse, throb). (various references)

palpitare, palpitaret, pulsans, pulsante, pulsanti, pulsare, pulsate, pulsaverit, pulso. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "pulsate": pulsated, pulsates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pulsate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pensate, pesate, pisante, poussette, pulate, pulpate, Pulsafe, pulsare, pulsatile, Pulsifer, pulsute, Pusat, pusate, Ulswater. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: letups, palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, salute, septal, staple, taupes, tepals.

-2 letters: lapse, leaps, leapt, least, lepta, letup, lutea, lutes, pales, palet, paste, pates, pause, peals, peats, pelts, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, pules, pulse, salep, sault, saute, sepal, septa, setal, setup, slate, slept, spale, spate, spelt, splat, sputa, stale, steal.

+1 letter: epaulets, outleaps, petalous, plateaus, pulsated, pulsates, sulphate.

+2 letters: apetalous, aspectual, copulates, eucalypts, peculates, platefuls, platesful, populates, postulate, pulsatile, spatulate, speculate, sporulate, stipulate, sulphated, sulphates.

+3 letters: amplitudes, capsulated, deutoplasm, disputable, duplicates, epaulettes, eucalyptus, exculpates, houseplant, inculpates, leucoplast, multiphase, outsparkle, peculators, penultimas, petulances, platitudes, platypuses, postulated, postulates, prelatures, psalterium, pullulates, pulmonates, pustulated, spathulate, speculated, speculates, speculator, sporulated, sporulates, stipulated, stipulates, supplanted, supplanter, supplicate, teacupfuls, teacupsful, unpleasant.