noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
resist the urge/impulse to do sth
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Bob resisted the urge to touch her hand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aggressive
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How and when does the child learn to control his aggressive impulses ?
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That you suppress your aggressive impulses ?
electrical
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In nervous communication, messages are carried as electrical impulses in nerve fibres.
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I felt as though I was stuck in this network or maze of electrical impulses .
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My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses .
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Here 130 million light-sensitive rods and cones cause photochemical reactions which transform the light into electrical impulses .
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All living organisms produce electrical impulses on an infinitesimal scale.
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In electronics, a spiral is used to convert radio waves into electrical impulses .
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It also sends electrical impulses into this poor mutt's brains to control its actions.
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This is then amplified by photomultiplier tubes and converted into electrical impulses .
natural
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This encouraged the natural impulse to whistle, and led in turn to the use of instrumental whistles emitting high-frequency sound.
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They were businessmen and found it difficult to restrain their natural impulse to boosterism.
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The natural impulses of mankind were for happiness, and we were predisposed to love one another and love peace.
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This is a natural impulse , and it often ensures a basic fairness in public systems.
specific
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This is largely because of the limitations on the specific impulse obtainable from chemical means.
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This option is therefore extremely wasteful of resources, compared to any of the three options with lower specific impulse .
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The ion engine has considerable potential as it is capable of generating specific impulses of thousands of seconds.
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These factors force chemical rockets to deliver specific impulses well below five hundred seconds.
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If the specific impulse could be increased towards 1000 seconds this would have a dramatic effect on the mass ratio required.
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The Titan was designed to use only storable propellants, at the price of somewhat inferior specific impulse .
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Increasing the specific impulse implies producing a greater exhaust velocity.
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The same ultimate specific impulse therefore applies to all three types of system.
sudden
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Acting on a sudden impulse , he turned.
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He felt a sudden sharp impulse to look to his left, but controlled it, his eyes never leaving the Empress.
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She never, as she had done in ètanjel, went to visit families on sudden impulse .
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She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything, to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone.
■ NOUN
nerve
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The breakdown of the insulation layer short-circuits nerve impulses and produces devastating consequences.
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First of all, the brain controls many bodily functions, either directly via nerve impulses or indirectly via hormones.
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More effective drugs had their origin in the basic research on chemical transmission of nerve impulses described in chapter 4.
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This traveling wave of altered electrical potential is called an action potential, more commonly known as a nerve impulse .
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The sensation only occurs when the nerve impulse reaches the brain.
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Many animals have a single lens used to focus light on to a plate able to convert it into nerve impulses .
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To jump over the gap between two cells, a nerve impulse has to be translated from electricity to chemicals and back.
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The unlocking of the receptor leads to the creation or suppression of a nerve impulse in the second cell.
■ VERB
act
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The Commissioner had, according to Namaliu, been under observation for some time before acting on impulse and alone.
buy
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He had made the offer to buy Sara out on impulse .
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It's always tempting when visiting an aquatic outlet to buy on impulse .
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Not all postcards are bought on impulse .
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People often buy on impulse while they are queueing to pay. 6 Related goods are usually displayed near to each other.
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Resist the temptation to buy on impulse , just because an outfit catches the eye.
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If you love plants, the chances are you buy them on impulse and then wonder where to put them.
control
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How and when does the child learn to control his aggressive impulses ?
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The first step is to let the husband grow up and take responsibility for controlling his impulses .
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They will not in this way learn to control those impulses which lead them to transgress.
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However, it was also shown that this gate mechanism was controlled by impulses descending from the brain.
feel
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He felt a sudden sharp impulse to look to his left, but controlled it, his eyes never leaving the Empress.
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One of the first, and surely the most important, of those to feel these impulses was President Truman.
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I felt an impulse to flee from the cottage in the early morning and stay out of it until dusk.
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Then the control relaxed; he felt no impulse to do anything, except to stand and wait.
fight
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Hazel and Fiver stared at each other, both fighting against the impulse to run.
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Robbie had to fight down an impulse to reach out and run her fingers over the dark mat.
resist
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Now you try this exercise, and resist the impulse to give up.
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He resisted an impulse to stand on a chair.
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Bragg could not resist the impulse to stroll over.
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Jean was unable to resist the impulse to return her smile.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He has to learn to control his violent impulses.
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It was an outfit that I had bought on impulse , and never worn.
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My first impulse was to go straight to Henry and tell him my news, but on reflection I thought better of it.
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The impulse of government all over the world is to control information.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was a vague idea, little more, Neville remembers, than an inchoate impulse .
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But the crucial challenge is to translate that spontaneous impulse of generosity into a long-term political commitment to prevent more global warming.
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In Middle-earth, then, both good and evil function as external powers and as inner impulses from the psyche.
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It takes a lot of wrong-way impulses to start a seizure in normal cortex.
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On impulse , he reached out and passed his hand through the vapour.
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Once the impulse is transmitted, the nerve segment recovers to its original state, ready for a new impulse.
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The first diary entries were no doubt recorded on an impulse , in odd hours in his room in the shophouse.
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The same ultimate specific impulse therefore applies to all three types of system.