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Definition of 'beat'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) beat
to strike forcefully and repeatedly:
to beat a toy drum.

2.  beat
to hit (a person or animal) repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash (often fol. by up).

3.  beat
to dash against:
rain beating the trees.

4.  beat
to flutter or flap:
a bird beating its wings.

5.  beat
to sound, as on a drum:
to beat a tattoo.

6.  beat
to stir vigorously.

7.  beat
to break, forge, or make by blows:
to beat swords into plowshares.

8.  beat
to make (a path) by repeated treading.

9.  beat
to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.

10.  beat
to scour (the forest, grass, or brush) in order to rouse game.

11.  beat
to overcome, as in a contest; defeat.

12.  beat
Informal. to be superior to:
Making reservations beats waiting in line.

13.  beat
Informal. to baffle:
It beats me how he got the job.

14.  beat
Informal. to mitigate or offset the effects of:
beating the hot weather.

15.  beat
Slang. to swindle; cheat (often fol. by out).

16.  beat
Slang. to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).

17.  beat
(in weaving) to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth with the reed or other comblike device.

18. (v.i.) beat
to strike with or as if with repeated blows.

19.  beat
to throb or pulsate.

20.  beat
to resound under blows, as a drum.

21.  beat
to achieve victory in a contest; win.

22.  beat
to play, as on a drum.

23.  beat
to scour cover for game.

24.  beat
(of a cooking ingredient) to permit beating.

25.  beat
to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.

26.  beat
beat about,

27.  beat
to search through; scour.

28.  beat
beat back, to force back; compel to withdraw.

29.  beat
beat down,

30.  beat
to bring into subjection; subdue.

31.  beat
Informal. to persuade (a seller) to lower the price.

32.  beat
beat off,

33.  beat
to ward off; repulse.

34.  beat
beat out,

35.  beat
to defeat; win or be chosen over.

36.  beat
to create hurriedly; bat out.

37. (n.) beat
a stroke or blow.

38.  beat
the sound made by one or more such blows.

39.  beat
a throb or pulsation:
a pulse of 60 beats per minute.

40.  beat
one's assigned or regular path or habitual round:
a police officer's beat.

41.  beat
the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music.

42.  beat
a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.

43.  beat
the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.

44.  beat
a variation in amplitude or volume caused by the interference of two waves that have slightly different frequencies.

45.  beat
the reporting of a piece of news ahead of one's rivals; scoop.

46.  beat
(often cap.)

47. (adj.) beat
Informal. exhausted; worn out.

48.  beat
(often cap.) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.

49.  beat
beat all, to be surprising or impressive:
Did he really? Well, if that doesn't beat all!

50.  beat
Informal. to go away.

51.  beat
on the beat, in the correct rhythm or tempo.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME beten, OE bēatan, c. OHG bōzzan)

Definition of 'beat'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) beat, round
a regular route for a sentry or policeman
"in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"

2. (noun) pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat
the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
"he could feel the beat of her heart"

3. (noun) rhythm, beat, musical rhythm
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
"the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"

4. (noun) 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

5. (noun) beatnik, beat
a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

6. (noun) beat
the sound of stroke or blow
"he heard the beat of a drum"

7. (noun) meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

8. (noun) beat
a regular rate of repetition
"the cox raised the beat"

9. (noun) beat
a stroke or blow
"the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"

10. (adj) beat
the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

11. (verb) all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)
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"

12. (verb) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
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"

13. (verb) beat, beat up, work over
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"

14. (verb) beat
hit repeatedly
"beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"

15. (verb) beat, pound, thump
move rhythmically
"Her heart was beating fast"

16. (verb) beat
shape by beating
"beat swords into ploughshares"

17. (verb) drum, beat, thrum
make a rhythmic sound
"Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

18. (verb) beat
glare or strike with great intensity
"The sun was beating down on us"

19. (verb) beat, flap
move with a thrashing motion
"The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

20. (verb) beat
sail with much tacking or with difficulty
"The boat beat in the strong wind"

21. (verb) beat, scramble
stir vigorously
"beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"

22. (verb) 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"

23. (verb) beat
be superior
"Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"

24. (verb) beat, bunk
avoid paying
"beat the subway fare"

25. (verb) tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat
make a sound like a clock or a timer
"the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

26. (verb) beat, flap
move with a flapping motion
"The bird's wings were flapping"

27. (verb) beat
indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
"Beat the rhythm"

28. (verb) pulsate, beat, quiver
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
"the city pulsated with music and excitement"

29. (verb) beat
make by pounding or trampling
"beat a path through the forest"

30. (verb) beat
produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
"beat the drum"

31. (verb) beat
strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

32. (verb) outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
beat through cleverness and wit
"I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

33. (verb) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
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"

34. (verb) exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out
wear out completely
"This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"

Definition of 'beat'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) beat
to defeat an opponent or team
We beat the other team 5-1.; I bet I can beat you at chess.

2.  beat
to hit sb hard and repeatedly
His father beat him.; The victim was beaten to death.

3.  beat
to do before sb or sth
She left early to beat the traffic.; I wanted to buy the car, but someone beat me to it.

4.  beat
beat sb to it
to be better than
Sitting here on the beach sure beats working!

5.  beat
to hit against sth repeatedly and hard
waves beating against the shore

6.  beat
to stir food rapidly
to beat the eggs

7.  beat
to make a pattern of sound or motion
I could feel the bird's heart beating.; drums beating in the distance

8.  beat
beat around the bush
to not say what you mean directly
Don't beat around the bush - just tell me!

9. (noun) beat
a sound or movement in a series
several beats of the drum; a beat of your heart

10. (adjective) beat
very tired
I'm beat!

Definition of 'beat'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) beat
weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted

2. (noun) beat
a stroke; a blow

3. (noun) beat
a recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse

4. (noun) beat
the rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit

5. (noun) beat
a transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament

6. (noun) beat
a sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8

7. beat
of Beat

8. beat
of Beat

9. (verb) beat
to strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum

10. (verb) beat
to punish by blows; to thrash

11. (verb) beat
to scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game

12. (verb) beat
to dash against, or strike, as with water or wind

13. (verb) beat
to tread, as a path

14. (verb) beat
to overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass

15. (verb) beat
to cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out

16. (verb) beat
to exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble

17. (verb) beat
to give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc

18. (verb) beat
to strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly

19. (verb) beat
to move with pulsation or throbbing

20. (verb) beat
to come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do

21. (verb) beat
to be in agitation or doubt

22. (verb) beat
to make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse

23. (verb) beat
to make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat

24. (verb) beat
to make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters

25. (verb) beat
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

26. (verb) beat
a round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat

27. (verb) beat
a place of habitual or frequent resort

28. (verb) beat
a cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat

Translation of 'beat'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to strike or hit repeatedly Beat the drum.
Afrikaans: slaan	Arabic: يَضْرِب	Bulgarian: удрям
Brazilian: bater	Czech: tlouci	German: schlagen
Danish: slå	Greek: χτυπώ εξακολουθητικά	Spanish: batir, golpear, percutir
Estonian: taguma	Farsi: پی در پی زدن	Finnish: hakata
French: battre	Hebrew: לְהַכּוֹת, לַהֲלוֹם	Hindi: वार करना
Croatian: udarati	Hungarian: üt, ver	Indonesian: memukul
Icelandic: berja, lemja	Italian: colpire, percuotere	Japanese: たたく
Korean: 연달아 치다	Lithuanian: mušti	Latvian: sist; dauzīt
Malay: pukul	Dutch: slaan	Norwegian: slå
Polish: uderzać	Persian: پی در پی زدن	Pashto: په پر له پسي توگه وهل او
Portuguese: bater	Romanian: a bate (în)	Russian: бить; ударять
Slovak: tĺcť	Slovenian: tolči	Serbian: udarati
Swedish: slå, piska, hamra, bulta	Thai: ตีซ้ำ ๆ	Turkish: vurmak,çalmak
Taiwanese: (接連地)擊打	Ukrainian: бити, вдаряти	Urdu: نقارے پر چوٹ لگانا ، ڈھول
Vietnamese: đập; nện	Chinese: （接连地）击打
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