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Meanings of impulse in English
Catalan
impuls nerviós The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber.
Usage of impulse in English
1
The solution was more the result of an impulse than careful planning.
2
The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
3
The impulse behind H&F's ambitions seems to come from a different place.
4
In the spirit of mischief, he followed the impulse of the moment.
5
Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye's vision survives.
6
Yet the Enterprise, even in battle or under impulse power, stands alone.
7
Then it began to ebb; meeting a counter-impulse arising in Eastern Europe.
8
I felt the impulse and heard the call in my early manhood.
9
Yet Stuart laughed in spite of his effort to control the impulse.
10
The impulse to save souls might easily exhaust itself in the individual.
11
He can still walk and talk, but he's lost his impulse control.
12
This impulse has been responsible for the cruellest of punishments throughout history.
13
Then some other impulse seized the bewildered rudimentary brains; the cattle balked.
14
I decided it was a natural impulse but probably a bad idea.
15
The artistic impulse in both of you is the same at bottom.
16
But the woman-instinct in her checked the first quick impulse of surrender.
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Translations for impulse
Portuguese
Russian
Impulse through the time
Impulse across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Australia
Less common
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