Pulsate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pulsate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pulsate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pulsate v expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" Synonym(s): pulsate, throb, pulse move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" Synonym(s): pulsate, beat, quiver 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" Synonym(s): pulse, pulsate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pulsate \Pul"sate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pulsated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pulsating}.] [L. pulsatus, p. p. of pulsare to beat, strike, v. intens. fr. pellere to beat, strike, drive. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Pulse}, v.] To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. --E. Darwin.