beat - 35 definitions |
| - noun |
| 1. | beat -- a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" |
| synonyms: round |
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| 2. | pulse -- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" |
| synonyms: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat |
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| 3. | rhythm -- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| synonyms: rhythm, musical rhythm |
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| 4. | 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 |
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| 5. | beatnik -- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior |
| synonyms: beatnik |
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| 6. | beat -- the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" |
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| 7. | meter -- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
| synonyms: meter, metre, measure, cadence |
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| 8. | beat -- a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" |
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| 9. | beat -- a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" |
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| 10. | beat -- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing |
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| 11. | beat -- 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" |
| synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
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| 12. | beat -- 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" |
| synonyms: beat up, work over |
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| 13. | beat -- hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
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| 14. | beat -- move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| synonyms: pound, thump |
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| 15. | beat -- shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
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| 16. | drum -- make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| synonyms: drum, thrum |
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| 17. | beat -- glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" |
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| 18. | beat -- move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| synonyms: flap |
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| 19. | beat -- sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" |
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| 20. | beat -- stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| synonyms: scramble |
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| 21. | beat -- 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" |
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| 22. | beat -- be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
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| 23. | beat -- avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" |
| synonyms: bunk |
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| 24. | tick -- make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
| synonyms: tick, ticktock, ticktack |
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| 25. | beat -- move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| synonyms: flap |
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| 26. | beat -- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" |
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| 27. | pulsate -- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" |
| synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
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| 28. | beat -- make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" |
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| 29. | beat -- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" |
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| 30. | beat -- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting |
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| 31. | outwit -- beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| synonyms: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, circumvent |
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| 32. | perplex -- 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" |
| synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound |
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| 33. | exhaust -- wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| synonyms: exhaust, wash up, tucker, tucker out |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 34. | beat, beats -- to strike repeatedly |
| synonyms: beats, beaten, thrash, beatable, unbeaten, lounder, polt, swindge, tund, ybet |
| Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |
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| - adjective |
| 35. | all in -- very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" |
| synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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