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pulsate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin puls?tus, from puls? (“I strike repeatedly”), from pell? (“I strike”). Doublet of push.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p?l?se?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?l.se?t/
Verb
pulsate (third-person singular simple present pulsates, present participle pulsating, simple past and past participle pulsated)
- To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
- To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
- To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
Derived terms
Related terms
- pulsar
Translations
Anagrams
- puteals, septula, spatule, upsteal
Ido
Verb
pulsate
- adverbial present passive participle of pulsar
Italian
Verb
pulsate
- second-person plural present indicative of pulsare
- second-person plural imperative of pulsare
Verb
pulsate f pl
- feminine plural of pulsato
Anagrams
- spatule
- spulate
Latin
Verb
puls?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of puls?
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thump
English
Etymology
Probably imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
thump (plural thumps)
- A blow that produces a muffled sound.
- December 24, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 111
- The watchman gave so very great a thump at my door last night, that I awakened at the knock.
- December 24, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 111
- The sound of such a blow; a thud.
- (dated, colloquial, euphemistic) Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.
- Where the thump have you been?!
Translations
Verb
thump (third-person singular simple present thumps, present participle thumping, simple past and past participle thumped)
- (transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
- (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
- The cat thumped its tail in irritation.
- (intransitive) To thud or pound.
- (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
Translations
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