different between pulsing vs pulsate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ls??/

Verb

pulsing

1. present participle of pulse

Noun

pulsing (plural pulsings)

1. The emission of pulses.
2. The action of something that pulses.
   • 1975, Charles M. Sherover, The Human Experience of Time (page 4)

     Used to mark out the stages of serial order, it seems to have been conceived primarily in terms of the periodicities or pulsings of the regular cycles of these series of change which we now term processes […]

Anagrams

• plug-ins, plugins, plugs in, plusing, pulings

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)

1. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
2. To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
3. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

Derived terms

Related terms

• pulsar

Translations

Anagrams

• puteals, septula, spatule, upsteal

Ido

Verb

pulsate

1. adverbial present passive participle of pulsar

Italian

Verb

pulsate

1. second-person plural present indicative of pulsare
2. second-person plural imperative of pulsare

Verb

pulsate f pl

1. feminine plural of pulsato

Anagrams

• spatule
• spulate

Latin

Verb

puls?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of puls?