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beat

/biːt/

verb20

  1. To hit; to strike.
  2. to be stronger or better than someone in a game or a fight, so that they lose
  3. To arrive at a place before someone.
  4. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
  5. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  6. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  7. 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.
  8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
  9. To indicate by beating or drumming.
  10. To make a sound when struck.
  11. To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
  12. To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
  13. (slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
  14. To tread, as a path.
  15. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
  16. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  17. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  18. To be in agitation or doubt.
  19. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
  20. simple past tense of beat

noun21

  1. a single hit on someone or something
  2. the steady rhythm of a piece of music
  3. one of the regular units of time in a piece of music, which are counted one, two, three and so on
  4. A pulsation or throb.
  5. the area that someone is in charge of in their job, such as the streets a police officer keeps watch over or the subject a reporter writes about
  6. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
  7. The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
  8. a recorded piece of music without words, made for someone to rap or sing over, especially in hip-hop
  9. a short planned break in the speaking or action of a play, movie or TV show, to make a moment more dramatic or funnier
  10. A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
  11. A beatnik.
  12. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
  13. The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
  14. (slang) the whole look of someone's makeup, especially when it is done very well
  15. the act of moving through land during a hunt, hitting plants and making noise to drive animals out toward the hunters
  16. (old-fashioned) the act of being first to report an important news story or the results of new research, also called a scoop
  17. (old-fashioned) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  18. (informal, old-fashioned) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
  19. (slang, old-fashioned) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
  20. (no longer used, old-fashioned) a district within a county, especially one where people go to vote, also called a precinct
  21. (no longer used) a person who cheats others in a shameful way, especially to get their money

adjective6

  1. (US, slang) Exhausted.
  2. Relating to the Beat Generation.
  3. Having impressively attractive makeup.
  4. (slang) Dilapidated, beat up.
  5. (slang) Boring.
  6. (slang) Ugly.
forms

beated · beatedst · beatest · beaten · beating · beateth · beats · more beat · beatest · most beat

Phrases with beat

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