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Narrator: Today's word is "Pulse" — noun, pronounced /pʌls/, with the stress on "pulse".
Narrator: A pulse is the regular beating of the heart that you can feel in your wrist or neck.
Narrator: In plain English, it is your heartbeat you can feel.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin pulsus, meaning a beating.
Narrator: A common collocation is "take someone's pulse", which describes counting their heartbeats.
Narrator: It differs from "heart rate", because heart rate is the number per minute, while the pulse is the beat itself.
Narrator: In a second sense, "keep your finger on the pulse" means staying up to date with what is happening.
Narrator: Medicine, sport, electronics and journalism all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a pulse is a regular beat, in your body or in the news.
Speaker A: How did the nurse know I was nervous?
Speaker B: Your PULSE was racing! It comes from the Latin pulsus, a beating.
Speaker A: She just held my wrist?
Speaker B: Yes, and counted for a minute.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "His pulse was weak", a medical note. "She keeps her finger on the pulse of fashion", an idiom. "The laser fires short pulses", a technical line.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Take a pulse, do not "make" one, and do not confuse it with pulses, meaning beans.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Heartbeat is its cousin, throb its twin, and rhythm an alternative — yet pulse keeps its lively charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "pulse" in AI prompts — useful for health apps and team surveys.
Speaker A: How for a health app?
Speaker B: Explain readings simply.
Prompt: Explain to a user in plain English what a resting pulse of 58 beats per minute means.
Speaker A: And team surveys?
Speaker B: Use pulse surveys.
Prompt: Write five short questions for a weekly employee pulse survey about workload.
Speaker A: Could it help news tools?
Speaker B: Yes, for trends.
Prompt: Summarise today’s top five technology stories to keep readers’ finger on the pulse.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: A wearable device.
Prompt: Write an alert message for a smartwatch when the wearer’s pulse stays above 120 at rest.
Pulse — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary