Impulse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPULSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give impetus to
• give an impulse to
• To impel; to incite.
NOUN:
• a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act
• the tendency to act impulsively
• something that causes something to happen or happen more quickly; an impetus
• a pulse of electrical energy; a brief current
• a force acting briefly on a body and producing a finite change of momentum
• a change of momentum produced by an impulse, equivalent to the average value of the force multiplied by the time during which it acts.
• The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
• The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
• The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
• A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.
• an instinctive motive
• a sudden desire
• the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
• (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
• the act of applying force suddenly
• an impelling force or strength
• sudden urge to do something

Words related to IMPULSE

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Words that contain IMPULSE

impulsed13 impulses12

How to use IMPULSE in a sentence

• He that should say that one extension by impulse moves another extension, would, by the bare expression, sufficiently show the absurdity of such a notion.
• And, resolute as ever, he acts upon the impulse which now becomes a plan.
• The whole congregation rose, moved by one impulse, and the silence was almost too solemn.
• Under the impulse of instinctive sympathy, I have bared my heart to you, Mr.
• I sprang to my feet with some sudden impulse, but, as I did so, the blood rushed madly to my head, and I fell.
• My first impulse was to follow her, but I thought it would be better to leave her to herself, and I only followed her with my eyes.
• He was about to do it, not to gratify any selfish desire, but of a beautiful impulse that if anything happened she would have this to remember as the last of him.
• Nor was the Government anxious to check this spirited impulse.
• On the other hand, when a man thinks for himself he follows his own impulse, which either his external surroundings or some kind of recollection has determined at the moment.
• If uttered, it may breathe inspiration into a thousand minds and become the impulse to ten thousand good actions.
• She looked on little Ally as the victim of a malign and tragic tendency, the fragile vehicle of an alien and overpowering impulse.
• The clergyman, foolishly resisting a natural impulse to admire her, felt like St.
• With an oath, the man, acting upon the impulse of the moment, ran after her.
• Perhaps it was that, in the unconventional freedom of the hills, the man obeyed more readily his impulse.
• Moved by the same impulse, they, too, rose from the table and went out of doors.
• Jennings was governed in it by an impulse of the utmost goodwill.
• Then, by an almost unaccountable impulse, she laid her finger on her lips, as she perceived quite near her the ecstatic face of the young painter.
• Several causes of dissatisfaction, besides those above mentioned, contributed to the impulse of emigration, but all in a very slight degree.
• At the first look he had felt a mean impulse to ridicule her because of them, but this impulse was succeeded instantly by a queer feeling of pity for her, and he kept silent.
• With a cynical laugh he threw off his impulse to write and turned into his blanket dreaming of the red carnival toward which they would march at dawn.
• If they leaned over him or took his hand, his impulse was to withdraw from the caress.
• The very fact that a desire, or an impulse, makes itself felt within you is the main point.
• Energy in action expresses the strength of the motive through which the action is excited, let the motive have its origin in a conviction of the understanding, or in an impulse.
• No impulse from a vernal wood can teach us anything at all of moral evil and of good.
• His first impulse, after the departure of the mysterious woman, was to hurry around to Mrs.
• The young sailor, as he released her from his embrace, looked with an uncontrolled impulse round the room.
• We made the mistake, however, of ignoring the great influence upon our civic prosperity of the business impulse of the West.
• Moliere not only suffered that tormenting impulse, but it was accompanied by the unhappiness of a mistaken direction.
• A natural impulse moved him, without reasoning, to action.

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