to check your pulse
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3.2
- phrasal verb
:
tomar el pulso
- After running, it's important to check your pulse to determine your heart rate recovery.
- better check your pulse
If you can't feel in that moment, you need to check your pulse and that that is the ultimate just do it moment.
- If you can't feel in that moment, you need to check your pulse and that that is the ultimate just do it moment.
Examples
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I need to check your pulse.
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I need to check your pulse.
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Now, I will check your pulse.
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Can I check your pulse?
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Let me check your pulse.
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Let me check your pulse, please, I'm a nurse.
Fiction book (1993) -
To monitor your heart health, check your pulse by placing your fingers on your wrist.
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During practice, the coach advised the athletes to check their pulse to ensure they weren't overexerting themselves.
Synonyms
To feel a person's wrist or neck to check their heartbeat
How Thoroughly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a literal verb + object construction: 'check' (inspect/verify) applied to 'pulse' (the heartbeat sensation) directly yields the meaning 'measure your heart rate'. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent action and follows regular compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand it.
Etymology
The phrase check your pulse comes from the simple action of putting your fingers on your wrist or neck to feel the pulse. So it means 'to measure how fast your heart is beating'.