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Definition: Pulsing |
PulsingAdjective1. Expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart". Noun1. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pulsing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Military & Defense | In naval mine warfare, a method of operating magnetic and acoustic sweeps in which the sweep is energized by current which varies or is intermittent in accordance with a predetermined schedule. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pulsing: In telephony, the transmission of address information to a switching office by means of pulses, i.e., signals, that originate from the subscriber, i.e., user, equipment.Note: Examples of pulsing methods are dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) signaling, in which a unique pair of audio frequencies represents each of the respective numerals or other characters on a keypad, and rotary dialing, in which dc pulses are generated by a rotary dial. Synonyms key pulsing (when using a keypad), dial pulsing (when using a rotary dial).
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pulsing."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| pulsar | English | Pulsing astronomical signal | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PulsingSynonyms: beating (adj), pulsating (adj), impulse (n), pulsation (n), pulse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pulsing |
| Specialty definitions using "pulsing": automatic number identification ♦ make-break ♦ pulsing limits ♦ revertive pulsing. (references) |
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| "Pulsing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 68.97% of the time. "Pulsing" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 68.97% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25.29% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.75% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 87 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pulsing": end of pulsing signal ♦ pulsing limits ♦ revertive pulsing ♦ Tibetan Pulsing Healing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pulsing": end-of-pulsing, self-pulsing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pulsing xenia | 11 |
around feeling in pulsing rib stabbing | 4 |
pulsing pussy | 2 |
ear pulsing | 2 |
ear in pulsing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pulsing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نابض (graphic, graphical, impulsive, palpitant, pulsatile, pulsatory, spring, thrilling), نبضي (beating, systaltic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 搏动 (Pulsate, Pulsated, Pulsating, pulsed). (various references) | |
Danish | pulsering, strygning med strømvending. (various references) | |
Dutch | pulserende reactor (pulsed reactor, pulsing reactor), terugwaartse impulsen (revertive pulsing), impulsbegrenzingsgraad (pulsing limits), gepulseerde reactor (pulsed reactor, pulsing reactor), einde van signaleringssignaal (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal). (various references) | |
Finnish | pulssivalintasärön rajat (pulsing limits), numerovalinnan loppusignaali (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal). (various references) | |
French | pulsatif (pulsatile, pulsator, pulsatory), impulsion (pulse), émission d'impulsions (pulse emission, pulsed emission). (various references) | |
German | pulsierend (pulsating). (various references) | |
Greek | όρια παραμόρφωσης παλμών (pulsing limits), αναστρεπτή εκπομπή παλμών (revertive pulsing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pulzáló, lüktetõ (intermittent, pulsatile, pulsatory), impulzus sorozat. (various references) | |
Italian | trasmissione impulsiva rivertiva (revertive pulsing), tolleranza di distorsione degli impulsi combinatori (pulsing limits), segnale ST di fine segnalazione (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal), segnale ST (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal), segnale di fine telefonico (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal), segnale di fine numerazione (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal), reattore impulsato (pulsed reactor, pulsing reactor), reattore ad impulsi (pulsed reactor, pulsing reactor), reattore a flusso pulsato (pulsed reactor, pulsing reactor). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脈"つ (pounding heart, pulsing vein). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みゃくうつ (pounding heart, pulsing vein). (various references) | |
Korean | 맥박이 뜀. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulsingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tolerância de distorção dos impulsos (pulsing limits), sinal ST (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal), sinal de fim de numeração (end of pulsing signal, end-of-pulsing signal, ST signal), limites dos impulsos (pulsing limits), impulsos na direcção de retorno (revertive pulsing). (various references) | |
Russian | пульсировать генерация. (various references) | |
Spanish | emisión de impulsos (impulsing, pulse emission, pulsed emission). (various references) | |
Swedish | pulsreaktor (pulsed reactor, pulsing reactor), pulseringstoleranser (pulsing limits), backpulsering (revertive pulsing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "pulsing": expulsing, impulsing, repulsing. (additional references) | |
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"Pulsing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: plussing, Pluvinage, pulsings, Pulsion, pulvini, pulvino, Pusina. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pulsing" (pronounced pu"lsing) |
| 6 | p u" l s i ng | repulsing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pulings. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lungis, lupins, pignus, puling, sluing, spuing. | |
-2 letters: gulps, iglus, lings, lungi, lungs, lupin, pilus, pings, plugs, pulis, pungs, sling, slung, suing, using. | |
-3 letters: gins, gips, gnus, gulp, guls, guns, iglu, ling, lins, lips, lisp, lugs, lung, nils, nips, pigs, ping, pins, plug, plus, pugs, puli, puls, pung, puns, sign, sing, slip, slug, snip. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sculping, slumping, slurping, suppling, upflings. | |
+2 letters: capsuling, couplings, dumplings, expulsing, impulsing, plumbings, puddlings, pulsating, purflings, repulsing, scrupling, sculpting, shlumping, splurging, supplying, upscaling. | |
+3 letters: displuming, insculping, nonplusing, pleasuring, publishing, schlumping, septupling, sextupling, spelunking, sulphating, sulphuring, superlying, unclasping, unpleasing, upswelling, upwellings. | |
+4 letters: antiplagues, capsulizing, encapsuling, nonplussing, outsleeping, outspelling, postulating, presumingly, publicising, publishings, pulverising, resculpting, resupplying, sculpturing, sepulchring, speculating, spelunkings, spluttering, sporulating, spurgalling, stipulating, subsampling, supplanting, unsparingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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