Crossword-Solution: DIASTOLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diastole | n. | The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction. |
| Diastole | n. | A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIASTOLE | anagram | ISOLATED, SAILEDTO, SODALITE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “DIASTOLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Part of the heart's rhythm | 1 answer |
| Relaxed phase of a heartbeat | 1 answer |
| Rhythmic dilatation of heart | 1 answer |
| Heart beat | 2 answers |
| Heart rhythm | 3 answers |
| dilation | 8 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DIASTOLE (5)
Unrelenting, fain To batter down resistance, fall again Stroke after stroke, insistent diastole, The bitter blows of truth, until the whole Is hammered into fact made strangely plain.
There are days also when countless medusae drift in--beautiful veined creatures that throb like hearts, with perpetual systole and diastole of their diaphanous envelops: some, of translucent azure or rose, seem in the flood the shadows or ghosts of huge campanulate flowers;--others have the semblance of strange living vegetables,--great milky tubers, just beginning to sprout.
Every man’s _heart_ (this organ belongs, you know, to the organic system) has a regular mode of action; but I know a great many men whose _brains_, and all their voluntary existence flowing from their brains, have a _systole_ and _diastole_ as regular as that of the heart itself.
Each huge globe of blinding whiteness was as it were clutched, compressed in a systole that was followed by a transitory diastole, and again a systole like a tightening grip, darkness, light, darkness, in rapid alternation.
With beat of systole and of diastole One grand great life throbs through earth’s giant heart, And mighty waves of single Being roll From nerveless germ to man, for we are part Of every rock and bird and beast and hill, One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill.
Quotes with DIASTOLE (2)
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.
Each heartbeat begins with a single, electrical impulse, or "spark." The distinctive sound we hear through a stethoscope, or when we place our head on a loved one's chest, is the sound of the heart valves opening and closing in perfect synchronicity with each other. It is a two-party rhythm - a delicate dance of systole and diastole, which propels the heart's electrically charged particles through its chambers roughly every second of the day, every day of our lives.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2021).