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Pulse vs Dulse - What's the difference?

pulse | dulse |

As nouns the difference between pulse and dulse

is that pulse is while dulse is a seaweed of a reddish-brown color (palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in scotland.

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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    dulse

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dillisk * dilsk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
  • * 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 151:
    • Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse , it makes you even thirstier.’
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 90:
    • They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.

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