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Pulse vs Strobe - What's the difference?

pulse | strobe |

As nouns the difference between pulse and strobe

is that pulse is a normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart while strobe is a stroboscopic lamp, a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

As verbs the difference between pulse and strobe

is that pulse is to beat, to throb, to flash while strobe is to flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

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.

    External links

    * (pulse) *

    Anagrams

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    strobe

    English

    (wikipedia strobe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stroboscopic lamp, a device used to produce regular flashes of light

    • Verb

    (strob)
  • To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
  • * 1986 , Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies
    • Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.

    Anagrams

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