Difference between Pulse and Throb

Pulse

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals. A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. A beat or throb. The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

Example sentence: When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Throb

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pound or beat rapidly or violentlyTo vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A beating, vibration or palpitation