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▸ noun:  (physiology)
▸ noun:  A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.
▸ noun:  The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
▸ noun:  (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
▸ noun:  (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
▸ noun:  (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
▸ noun:  (physics)
▸ noun:  A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.
▸ noun:  Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”)
▸ noun:  (also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.
▸ noun:  (transport) A timed, coordinated connection, when multiple public transportation vehicles are at a hub at the same time so that passengers can flexibly connect between them.
▸ verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
▸ verb:  (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
▸ verb:  (transitive, electronics, physics)
▸ verb:  To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
▸ verb:  To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.

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