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Recur vs Pulsate - What's the difference?

recur | pulsate |

As verbs the difference between recur and pulsate

is that recur is to have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc while pulsate is to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.

recur

English

Verb

(recurr)
  • To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
  • *:She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more.
  • To happen again.
  • The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
  • (computing) To recurse.
  • Derived terms

    * recurrent * recurrence

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    pulsate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat
  • to quiver, vibrate, thrill
  • to produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, pulsatile , pulsation , pulsator , pulsatory}}