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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;
- Example: "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
[syn: pulsate, throb, pulse]

2. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
- Example: "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
[syn: pulsate, beat, quiver]

3. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses;
- Example: "pulse waves"
- Example: "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
[syn: pulse, pulsate]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]

         The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate
         long after it is taken from the body.    --E. Darwin.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pulsate
    v 1: expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The
         baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged
         it" [syn: pulsate, throb, pulse]
    2: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the
       city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate,
       beat, quiver]
    3: 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" [syn: pulse, pulsate]