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puls
English
Noun
puls
- plural of pul
Anagrams
- LPUS, ULPs, plus, ulps
Czech
Noun
puls m inan
- Alternative form of pulz
Further reading
- puls in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- puls in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?ls/
- Hyphenation: puls
- Rhymes: -?ls
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English pulse, from Latin pulsus.
Noun
puls m (plural pulsen, diminutive pulsje n)
- A pulse (e.g. of a shock, heartbeat or sonar).
Derived terms
- pulskor
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
puls
- first-person singular present indicative of pulsen
- imperative of pulsen
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (póltos, “porridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /puls/, [p???s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /puls/, [puls]
Noun
puls f (genitive pultis); third declension
- meal, porridge
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- puls in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- puls in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- puls in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- puls in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pols
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French pouls, pols, from Latin puls, probably from Ancient Greek ?????? (póltos) from a Proto-Indo-European *pel (“dust, flour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?puls/
Noun
puls (uncountable)
- Legumes or their seeds.
- (rare) A legume.
Descendants
- English: pulse
References
- “puls, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-18.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin pulsus
Noun
puls m (definite singular pulsen, indefinite plural pulser, definite plural pulsene)
- (physiology) pulse
Derived terms
- pulsåre
Related terms
- pulsere
References
- “puls” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin pulsus
Noun
puls m (definite singular pulsen, indefinite plural pulsar, definite plural pulsane)
- (physiology) pulse
Derived terms
- pulsåre
References
- “puls” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French pouls, Latin pulsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puls/
Noun
puls n (plural pulsuri)
- pulse
Declension
Related terms
- pulsa
- pulsa?ie
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
p?ls m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- pulse (physiology) (beat of heart)
Declension
Volapük
Noun
puls
- plural of pul
puls From the web:
- what pulse
- what pulse ox is too low
- what pulse is too low
- what pulse is too high
- what pulse is normal
- what pulse rate is normal
- what pulse rate is dangerous
- what pulse rate is considered tachycardia
beat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bi?t/
- Homophone: beet
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English beten, from Old English b?atan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd- (“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confut? (“I strike down”), f?stis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian ???? (but?)).
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A stroke; a blow.
- He, […] with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
- (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
- As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24
- It's a beat on the whole country.
- 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24
- (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
- (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
- (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
- Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.
- 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Pennsylvania German: biede
Translations
See also
- (piece of hip-hop music): track
Verb
beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or beat)
- (transitive) To hit; strike
- Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than; to excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- Synonym: negotiate
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
- (US slang) exhausted
- dilapidated, beat up
- (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup
- (slang) boring
- (slang, of a person) ugly
Synonyms
- (exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
- (boring): See also Thesaurus:boring
- (ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly
Translations
Etymology 2
From beatnik
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A beatnik.
- 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
- The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.
- 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
Derived terms
- beat generation
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN.
Anagrams
- Bate, Beta, Teba, abet, bate, beta
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin be?tus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /be?at/
- Rhymes: -at
Adjective
beat (feminine beata, masculine plural beats, feminine plural beates)
- saint, beatified
Derived terms
- beateria
Noun
beat m (plural beats)
- monk
Related terms
- beatífic
Further reading
- “beat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “beat” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “beat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “beat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
- Hyphenation: beat
- Rhymes: -it
- Homophones: bied, biedt, biet
Noun
beat m (plural beats, diminutive beatje n)
- A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
- (music) beat an early rock genre.
Derived terms
- beatmis
- beatmuziek
Anagrams
- bate
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi?t/, [?bi?t?]
Noun
beat
- (music) beat
Declension
Synonyms
- biitti
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Adjective
beat (invariable)
- beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)
Noun
beat m (invariable)
- beat (rhythm accompanying music)
Anagrams
- beta
Latin
Verb
beat
- third-person singular present active indicative of be?
Romanian
Etymology
From Late Latin bibitus (“drunk”), from Latin bib? (“drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [be?at]
Adjective
beat m or n (feminine singular beat?, masculine plural be?i, feminine and neuter plural bete)
- drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy
Declension
Synonyms
- îmb?tat
- b?ut
Antonyms
- treaz
Derived terms
- be?ie
Related terms
- bea
- be?iv
- îmb?ta
Volapük
Noun
beat (nominative plural beats)
- happiness
Declension
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