Synonyms of the word

pulsation

• n. The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
• n. Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
• n. (now rare) Physical striking; a blow.
• n. A single beat, throb or vibration.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

heartbeat

• n. One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
• n. The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
• n. A driving impulse or vital force.
• n. A very short space of time; an instant.
• n. (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize…

impulse

• n. A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
• n. A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
• n. (physics) The integral of force over time.
• v. (obsolete) To impel; to incite.

phenomenon

• n. A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
• n. (extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science).
• n. (metonymy) A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2).
• n. Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
• n. A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
• n. A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
• n. (philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and…

pulse

• n. (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of…
• n. A beat or throb.
• n. (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
• n. An autosoliton.
• v. To beat, to throb, to flash.
• v. To flow, particularly of blood.
• v. To emit in discrete quantities.
• n. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod,…

pulsing

• v. present participle of pulse.
• n. The emission of pulses.
• n. The action of something that pulses.

undulation

• n. an instance or act of undulating.
• n. a wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
• n. (music) a tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
• n. a wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
• n. a wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.