set someone's pulse racing
pulse
verb
uk /pʌls/ us /pʌls/
[ I ]
to move or beat with a strong, regular rhythm: （以规律且强有力的节拍）跳动，搏动，振动
I could feel the blood pulsing through my veins.我能感觉到血液在我的血管里翻腾。
[ I or T ]
to mix food by switching a food processor(= an electric machine for cutting or mixing food) on and off again quickly: （用食品搅拌机）脉冲搅拌
Place the prawns in a food processor and pulse to a coarse paste.将大虾放入食品搅拌机中，搅拌成粗糊状。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Shaking, swinging and vibrating
brandish
earth-shaking
flap
flappy
flourish
fluff
fluff something up
reverberation
reverberative
ripple
rock-a-bye
shake out
shakily
sway
thrash
trembly
tremulously
vibrate
vibration
vibratory

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Preparing food

pulse | American Dictionary

pulse
noun[ C ]
us/pʌls/
biology
a regular rhythm made by blood being moved through your body by your heart, esp. when it is felt at the wrist or side of the neck
physics
A pulse is also a single burst of light or some other form of energy that is sudden and strong.
pulse
verb[ I ]
us/pʌls/
to move with a regular beat:
The music pulses with soul, Creole, and Cuban rhythms.

pulse | Business English

pulse
noun
uk /pʌls/us
 have/keep your finger on the pulse (of sth)
to be or remain completely aware of what is happening in a situation:
He is a talented journalist with his finger on the pulse of the younger generation.
Most good agents keep their fingers on the pulse of the housing market.

Examples of pulse

pulse
Generation of quasimonoenergetic electron beams using ultrashort and ultraintense laser pulses.
Computations for nonlinear force driven plasma blocks by picosecond laser pulses for fusion.
On the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with cluster targets.
Synchronous circuits may be defined as automata whose transitions between successive states are triggered by pulses delivered by a global clock.
As a vegetatively propagated crop, seed quality is more important for potatoes than for cereals or pulses.
637 capillary discharge dynamics, plasma configuration optimal for the guiding of high intensity ultrashor t laser pulses can be generated.
Experimental investigation of radiation-gasdynamic processes that develop under the action of high-power l 10.6 mm laser pulses on a solid in a gas.
However, it is questionable whether this high magnetic field may be obtained with superintense laser pulses.
Acceleration of tibial tracture healing by non-invasive, low intensity pulsed ultrasound.
Electrons and protons beams produced by ultra shor t laser pulses in the relativistic regime.
However, the use of femtosecond laser pulses for plasma generation has opened up a wealth of interesting new possibilities and applications.
Physical examination revealed tachypnea, tachycardia, gallop rhythm, systolic murmur maximum at the right upper sternal border, and barely felt bilateral femoral pulses.
Enhancement of proton acceleration by hot-electron recirculation in thin foils irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses.
In the fast ignitor scheme the difficulties are transferred to the per formance requirements of the channeling and the ignitor pulses.
Nearly all the continua are animated by short, repetitive movements, pulsed into the shape of a delta.
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Collocations withpulse

pulse

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brief pulse
In the pulsed-pedestal paradigm, the observer adapted to the background and the pedestal and pattern were presented together as a brief pulse.
electric pulse
It helps to optimize the design of electric pulse profiles and the propellant charge.
electrical pulse
However, the content of glutathione and glutathione disulphide did not change in oocytes that were only stimulated by an electricalpulse, or in control oocytes.
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