(physiology) A regularly felt beat in arteries near the skin, indicating the heart's pumping of blood and serving as an indication of a person's health.

(figurative) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.

(figurative) 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.

(chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.

(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.

(music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.

(physics) A noun "pulse" represents a brief burst of electromagnetic energy, a stable solitary localized structure in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems, and a brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal.

(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.

(uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; such a plant; a legume.

(uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; a specific kind of such a grain or seed.

(transitive, also figurative) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.

(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.

(transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.

(transitive, electronics, physics) Apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to something and manipulate an electric current or electromagnetic wave so that it is emitted in pulses.

(intransitive, chiefly figurative 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.

(intransitive, figurative) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.