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Heartbeat vs Heartbeatlike - What's the difference?

heartbeat | heartbeatlike |

As a noun heartbeat

is one pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.

As an adjective heartbeatlike is

resembling a heartbeat.

heartbeat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
    • The policeman waited for a heartbeat in vain
    ''He alone gives me such heartbeats
  • The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator
    • ''If your heartbeat doesn't normalize soon, consult a doctor!
  • A driving impulse or vital force.
    • Music is the heartbeat of the people.
  • A very short space of time; an instant.
    • The ambulance arrived in a heartbeat .
  • (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.

    • Synonyms

    * (rhythm at which a heart pulsates) pulse

    Derived terms

    * in a heartbeat

    heartbeatlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a heartbeat.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 6, author=Randy Kennedy, title=Sound Tunnel: Avant-Garde Park Portrait, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Conjuring up images of Gene Hackman as the surveillance expert in Francis Ford Coppola ’s film “The Conversation,” Mr. Morton moved through the park surreptitiously for more than 40 days over the course of a year, capturing gospel choirs, park-bench arguments, the rattle of dead leaves and the heartbeatlike clack of lawn-bowling balls. }}