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Bulse vs Pulse - What's the difference?

bulse | pulse |

As nouns the difference between bulse and pulse

is that bulse is a purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc while pulse is a normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.

As a verb pulse is

to beat, to throb, to flash.

bulse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (India) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.
    • (Macaulay)
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=17 , year=2011 , month=December , first= , last= , author= , coauthors= , title=The East India Company , volume=401 , issue=8764 , page=110 , magazine=The Economist , publisher=The Economist Newspaper Limited , issn=0013-0613 , url= , passage=It also made regular gifts to the Court: "All who could help or hurt at Court," wrote Lord Macaulay, "ministers, mistresses, priests, were kept in good humour by presents of shawls and silks, birds' nests and attar of roses, bulses of diamonds and bags of guineas." }} (Webster 1913)

    pulse

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . For spelling, the -e'' (on ''-lse ) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
  • A beat or throb.
  • * (rfdate) Tennyson
    • the measured pulse of racing oars
  • * (rfdate) Burke
    • When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke.
  • (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
  • An autosoliton.
    • Related terms
    * (l) * (l)
    See also
    * beat * (Physiology) arrhythmia, blood pressure, heartbeat * (Music) meter, tempo

    Verb

  • To beat, to throb, to flash.
    • In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.
  • To flow, particularly of blood.
    • Hot blood pulses through my veins.
  • To emit in discrete quantities.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) pouls, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.

    • References

    * * * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

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