Pulse vs Jet - What's the difference?
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(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
A beat or throb.
* (rfdate) Tennyson
* (rfdate) Burke
(music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
An autosoliton.
To beat, to throb, to flash.
To flow, particularly of blood.
To emit in discrete quantities.
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.
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
# A turbine.
# A rocket engine.
A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
(physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
(dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
(printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
To spray out of a container.
To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
Propelled by turbine engines.
A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
Very dark black in colour.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
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is .As a proper noun jet is
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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)- the measured pulse of racing oars
- 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.
See also
* beat * (Physiology) arrhythmia, blood pressure, heartbeat * (Music) meter, tempoVerb
- In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.
- Hot blood pulses through my veins.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) pouls, .Noun
(en noun)References
* * * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.External links
* (pulse) *Anagrams
* * ----jet
English
(wikipedia jet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) jet, (etyl) get, giet, (etyl) . See (abject), (ejaculate), (gist), (jess), (jut).Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Verb
(jett)- He jets under his advanced plumes.
- to jet upon a prince's right
- (Wiseman)
Adjective
(-)- jet airplane
Etymology 2
From (etyl) / (etyl) jet, jayet, (etyl) gagates after (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.