I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s heart/pulse rate (= the number of beats per minute )
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A miner’s resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute.
your heart/pulse/breathing quickens (= your heart beats faster because you are afraid, excited etc )
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She caught sight of Rob and felt her heart quicken.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rate
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SaO 2 and pulse rate data were analysed by two methods.
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In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60.
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After a while your pulse rate slows and you come to think maybe these ordinary law-abiding folks ain't zombies after all.
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I check out her pulse rate with my lips.
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During the procedure pulse rate , blood pressure, and oxygen saturation were recorded every minute by the research nurse.
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The next question is, what type of training routine do you use to increase pulse rate ?
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A simple paired comparison of mean pulse rate data obtained immediately before and during the procedure was also carried out.
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Take your pulse in the same way that you calculated your resting pulse rate earlier.
■ VERB
check
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A second nurse takes my blood pressure and checks my pulse .
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I check out her pulse rate with my lips.
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Every so often, the stones would quieten while a doctor would check the women's pulse .
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There was no electronic monitor, so Shelley would just have to check pulse and blood-pressure regularly.
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After giving four breaths, check the pulse .
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There, she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him.
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The moment he arrived back at the flat, Adam checked his pulse: 150 beats a minute.
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Sandison did not even bother to check his pulse or try to revive him.
feel
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He lay still, feeling the warm pulse of her body neatly folded against his.
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She could feel her pulse pounding in her ankles, wrists, and throat.
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After taking off his topee and wiping his head, he felt the boy's pulse automatically.
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The sound of the death of R &038; B.. Jack Gibson could feel the pulse weakening.
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And they had come to feel that pulse .
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I could feel the pulse in my throat.
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If I didn't move some one would come and feel for a pulse and, finding one, finish me off.
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The finger was removed almost immediately, but not before Isabel had felt the throbbing pulse against her lips.
find
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Doctors had been unable to find a pulse as they hurried to their next Medicash-insured mugging victim.
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He pulled the heavy leather of her flying jacket from her arm and tried to find a pulse .
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It may be difficult to find the neck pulse in a baby because the neck tends to be short and chubby.
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Practise on your own child since it is often difficult to find a pulse in an emergency.
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If you can not find a pulse , you must begin chest compression, also known as heart massage.
quicken
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The ability of a resort to quicken the pulse as I approach.
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But the movie never quickens the pulse .
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How can words stir anyone to action or even reflection if the accompanying music fails to quicken the pulse ?
race
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The masters of noir are obvious influences on Nova; his prose races with a fast pulse .
take
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I took his pulse , then sat back in the chair by his bed, my hands in my lap.
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Gutfreund took the pulse of the place by simply wandering around it and asking questions of the traders.
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She took the pulse again, listened to the heartbeat, and took the blood-pressure.
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Polls have become not only an instrument for taking the momentary public pulse but a servant of political spin.
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Once satisfied, she took his pulse again, then watched him for a while.
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The December quarter also will be a chance for investors to take the pulse of the Internet craze.
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After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse .
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Usually they don chest-high wading boots and plow into water to take the pulse of the rivers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have/keep your finger on the pulse (of sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An electrical pulse sends the atom to the tip of the microscope needle.
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Stock brokers with a feel for Hong Kong's financial pulse were worried.
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the pulse of steel drums in the parks
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The man on the ground had no pulse .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But physicists believe a pulse of light-a group of massless waves-can.
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Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse .
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Same with the second beam pulse - the one behind the first.
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Take your pulse in the same way that you calculated your resting pulse rate earlier.
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The masters of noir are obvious influences on Nova; his prose races with a fast pulse .
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The spectrum during this fraction 0.35 of the pulse period can be fitted with a power law with in MeV.
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Then up again, all in oxygen so thin that your pulse rate is 50 percent higher.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Often you can feel the brake pedal pulsing when the ABS system is operating.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But on the biosensor display the languidly pulsing curves had begun to change their tempo.
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Closing his eyes momentarily, he felt a rush of ecstasy pulsing through his body.
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He was paralysed with the pain of the wound which pulsed in time to his heartbeat.
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I could feel the pulsing of veins that usually precedes entry into a forbidden, private realm.
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Meredith's mouth felt dry from the waves of sheer sensuality pulsing towards her.
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The foundation organized thousands of town meetings around the country to pulse people on public policy issues and possible solutions.