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Throb vs Pulsing - What's the difference?

throb | pulsing |

As verbs the difference between throb and pulsing

is that throb is to pound or beat rapidly or violently while pulsing is .

As nouns the difference between throb and pulsing

is that throb is a beating, vibration or palpitation while pulsing is the emission of pulses.

throb

English

Verb

(throbb)
  • To pound or beat rapidly or violently
  • To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm
  • # (of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

    • Derived terms

    * throbbingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beating, vibration or palpitation
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs , presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country}}

    Derived terms

    * throbber * heartthrob

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    pulsing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The emission of pulses.
  • The action of something that pulses.
  • * 1975 , Charles M. Sherover, The Human Experience of Time (page 4)
    • Used to mark out the stages of serial order, it seems to have been conceived primarily in terms of the periodicities or pulsings of the regular cycles of these series of change which we now term processes

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