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Meanings of impulse in inglés

portugués
pulsação

(Electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

        pulsação
        catalán
        impuls nerviós

        The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber.

              impuls nerviós
              portugués
              desejo
              catalán
              caprici
              español
              impulso

              A sudden desire.

                    impulso
                    portugués
                    impulso
                    catalán
                    impuls
                    español
                    impulso

                    The act of applying force suddenly.

                          impulso
                          Sinónimos
                          Examples for "whim"
                          Examples for "whim"
                          1
                          His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim.
                          The Guardian
                          2
                          Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim.
                          The Irish Times
                          3
                          Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim.
                          The Guardian
                          4
                          Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim.
                          Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
                          5
                          The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
                          The Adventures of Kathlyn
                          1
                          Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
                          Poor Relations
                          2
                          You've insulted me; I can be very vicious, simply out of caprice.
                          Nova
                          3
                          Poets have, in all ages, called this the caprice of the waves.
                          The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                          4
                          The root for caprice even shares a root word for your sign.
                          Ebony
                          5
                          There was, perhaps, in his conduct something of the caprice of contempt.
                          J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 / The Haunted Baronet (1...
                          Usage of impulse in inglés
                          1
                          The solution was more the result of an impulse than careful planning.
                          RUNNER
                          2
                          The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
                          Poor Relations
                          3
                          The impulse behind H&F's ambitions seems to come from a different place.
                          The Guardian
                          4
                          In the spirit of mischief, he followed the impulse of the moment.
                          The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
                          5
                          Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye's vision survives.
                          A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
                          6
                          Yet the Enterprise, even in battle or under impulse power, stands alone.
                          Wired
                          7
                          Then it began to ebb; meeting a counter-impulse arising in Eastern Europe.
                          The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
                          8
                          I felt the impulse and heard the call in my early manhood.
                          California Sketches, New Series
                          9
                          Yet Stuart laughed in spite of his effort to control the impulse.
                          The Root of Evil
                          10
                          The impulse to save souls might easily exhaust itself in the individual.
                          The Altar Steps
                          11
                          He can still walk and talk, but he's lost his impulse control.
                          Body work
                          12
                          This impulse has been responsible for the cruellest of punishments throughout history.
                          The South African
                          13
                          Then some other impulse seized the bewildered rudimentary brains; the cattle balked.
                          The Killer
                          14
                          I decided it was a natural impulse but probably a bad idea.
                          Bag of Bones
                          15
                          The artistic impulse in both of you is the same at bottom.
                          What's Bred in the Bone
                          16
                          But the woman-instinct in her checked the first quick impulse of surrender.
                          The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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                          Translations for impulse
                          Impulse through the time
                          Impulse across language varieties
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Less common
                          Australia
                          Less common
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