beat in English dictionary

  • beat

    Meanings and definitions of "beat"

    • 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.
    • The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
    • A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a character's face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
    • (law enforcement) The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat .
    • In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
    • A small part of a dramatic play.
    • The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
    • (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
    • (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
    • (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
    • (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
    • To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
    • (Should we delete (+) this redundant sense?) (impersonal): It beats X Y = X cannot understand Y , where Y is an indirect question.
    • (transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
    • (nonstandard) Past participle of beat
    • (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
    • (gay slang) fabulous
    • A beatnik.
    • (to) beat
    • adjective
      (US slang)
      exhausted
    • adjective
      dilapidated, beat up
    • adjective
      (gay slang)
      fabulous
    • adjective
      (slang)
      boring
    • adjective
      (slang, of a person)
      ugly
    • noun
      A beatnik.
    • noun
      A stroke; a blow.
    • noun
      A pulsation or throb.
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      A rhythm.
    • noun
      (Can we verify (+) this sense?) ( music) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
    • noun
      The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
    • noun
      A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
    • noun
      The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
    • noun
      (by extension)
      An area of a person's responsibility, especially
    • noun
      (dated)
      An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
    • noun
      (colloquial, dated)
      That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
    • noun
      (dated)
      A place of habitual or frequent resort.
    • noun
      (archaic)
      A low cheat or swindler.
    • noun
      The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
    • noun
      (hunting)
      The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
    • noun
      (fencing)
      A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To move with pulsation or throbbing.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
    • verb
      (intransitive, nautical)
      To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
    • verb
      To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
    • verb
      (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price)
      of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To indicate by beating or drumming.
    • verb
      To tread, as a path.
    • verb
      To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
    • verb
      To be in agitation or doubt.
    • verb
      To make a sound when struck.
    • verb
      (military, intransitive)
      To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
    • verb
      To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To arrive at a place before someone.
    • pulsation
    • rhythm
    • interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
    • law enforcement: route of a patrol by a guard or officer
    • to hit, to knock, to pound, to strike
    • to strike or pound repeatedly
    • to win against
    • nautical
    • to whip
    • A rhythmic pulsation of the heart.
    • Speed degree during a certain part of a song rythm.
    • beat (fast)
    • beat (someone in battle)
    • beat (rhythmic)
    • beat (with a stick)
    • (to) beat (with a stick)
    • (to) strike
    • beat (on something)
    • set out (forth)
    • To end in success a struggle or contest.
    • snort (nose)
    • (musical) time
    • attack (an enemy)
    • To give a beating to; subject to a punishment or an act of aggression.
    • noun
      a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
    • noun
      a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
    • 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"
    • noun
      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
    • noun
      a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
    • noun
      (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
    • noun
      the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
    • noun
      the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
    • noun
      the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
    • noun
      the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
    • verb
      avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
    • verb
      beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
    • verb
      be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
    • verb
      be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
    • verb
      come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
    • verb
      hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
    • verb
      indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
    • verb
      make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
    • verb
      make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
    • verb
      make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
    • verb
      move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
    • verb
      move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
    • verb
      move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
    • verb
      move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
    • verb
      produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
    • verb
      sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
    • verb
      shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
    • verb
      stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
    • verb
      wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"

    Synonyms of "beat" in English dictionary

    form, cheat, forge are the top synonyms of "beat" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of beat

    • Conjugation of beat
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    • beat, beat, beaten, beats, beating lp  liczba pojedyncza beat, lm  liczba mnoga beats
    • beat ( plural  beats)
    • beat ( comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
    • beat ( third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten)
    • beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
    • beat (plural beats)
    • beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or beat)
  • Beat

    Meanings and definitions of "beat"

    • One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 135.

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