beat

Plural: beats

Noun

• a regular route for a sentry or policeman
  • "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
  • "he could feel the beat of her heart"
• the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
  • "the conductor set the beat"
• a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
• a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
• the sound of stroke or blow
  • "he heard the beat of a drum"
• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
• a regular rate of repetition
  • "the cox raised the beat"
• a stroke or blow
  • "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
• the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
• A stroke; a blow.
• A pulsation or throb.
• A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
• A rhythm.
• A rhythm.
• The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
• The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
• A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• An area of a person's responsibility, especially
• The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• An area of a person's responsibility, especially
• The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
• An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• A precinct.
• A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
• A low cheat or swindler.
• The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
• A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
• A beatnik.

Verb

Verb Forms: beat, beaten, beating, beats

• To defeat someone; to strike repeatedly.
• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  • "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"
  • "We beat the competition"
• give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
  • "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"
  • "The teacher used to beat the students"
• hit repeatedly
  • "beat on the door"
  • "beat the table with his shoe"
• move rhythmically
  • "Her heart was beating fast"
• shape by beating
  • "beat swords into ploughshares"
• make a rhythmic sound
  • "The drums beat all night"
• glare or strike with great intensity
  • "The sun was beating down on us"
• move with a thrashing motion
  • "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
• sail with much tacking or with difficulty
  • "The boat beat in the strong wind"
• stir vigorously
  • "beat the egg whites"
  • "beat the cream"
• strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
  • "beat one's breast"
  • "beat one's foot rhythmically"
• be superior
  • "Reading beats watching television"
  • "This sure beats work!"
• avoid paying
  • "beat the subway fare"
• make a sound like a clock or a timer
  • "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
• move with a flapping motion
• indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
  • "Beat the rhythm"
• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
• make by pounding or trampling
  • "beat a path through the forest"
• produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
  • "beat the drum"
• strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
• beat through cleverness and wit
  • "I beat the traffic"
• be a mystery or bewildering to
  • "This beats me!"
• wear out completely
  • "I'm beat"
• To hit; to strike.
• To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
• To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
• To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• To indicate by beating or drumming.
• To tread, as a path.
• To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• To be in agitation or doubt.
• To make a sound when struck.
• To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
• To arrive at a place before someone.
• To have sexual intercourse.
• To rob; to cheat or scam.
• simple past tense of beat
• past participle of beat

Adjective Satellite

• very tired
  • "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"

Adj

• Exhausted.
• Dilapidated, beat up.
• Having impressively attractive makeup.
• Boring.
• Ugly.
• Relating to the Beat Generation.

Examples

• a beat of the heart
• a dead beat
• After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
• As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
• beat poetry
• Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
• Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
• Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
• He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
• He beat me there.
• He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
• He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
• Her face was beat for the gods!
• I already beat him, but he hasn't realized it yet.
• I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
• I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
• I’m determined to beat my own high score in the next Words With Friends game.
• Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
• No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
• the beat of him
• the beat of the pulse
• The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
• The drums beat.
• The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
• to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
• to walk the beat

Synonyms

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