Word Finder - beat

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A stroke; a blow.

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A pulsation or throb.

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a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse

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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.

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A rhythm.

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The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

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(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.

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The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

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(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

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An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

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That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

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the beat of him

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A precinct.

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A place of habitual or frequent resort.

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A low cheat or swindler.

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a dead beat

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The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

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The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

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A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

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To hit; strike

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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.

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• hammer
• knock
• pound
• strike
• whack

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To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

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He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

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To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

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To move with pulsation or throbbing.

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To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

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I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.

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To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

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To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

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To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

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Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

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(In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

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He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

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• negotiate

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To indicate by beating or drumming.

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to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

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To tread, as a path.

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To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

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To be in agitation or doubt.

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To make a sound when struck.

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The drums beat.

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To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

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The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

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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.

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To arrive at a place before someone.

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He beat me there.

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To have sexual intercourse.

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Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

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• do it
• get it on
• have sex
• shag

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To rob.

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He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

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Exhausted

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After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

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Dilapidated, beat up

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Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.

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Fabulous

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Her makeup was beat!

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Boring

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(of a person) ugly

Her father beat them both.

You beat me to it.

The best way to beat the cold was to work up some heat.

Some medical attention has to beat none.

He beat the dirt off his clothes with his hat and then unsaddled the horse.

You think I'll beat you eventually?

I'll beat Old Prickly, all right.

She sighed and snuggled against him, feeling the beat of his heart... or was that her own?

If you throw one more dead animal at my feet, I'm going to beat you over the head with it.

We got him beat hands down.

He can beat them!

Princess Mary's heart beat so violently at this news that she grew pale and leaned against the wall to keep from falling.

Listen … listen … listen … He slapped his forehead with his palm in a rhythmic beat, waiting for some sort of divine inspiration.

She beat him with her fists until finally her vision began to fail.

I don't know if I can wait until you beat Fitzgerald in the election.

Does he beat women?

And only idlers have failed to beat the Germans.

Her heart skipped a beat.

My thoughts would often rise and beat up like birds against the wind, and I persisted in using my lips and voice.

But, fortunately for her, she felt her eyes growing misty, she saw nothing clearly, her pulse beat a hundred to the minute, and the blood throbbed at her heart.

He was coated with sweat and exhausted, but he wouldn't stop until he beat the fury out of him.

He found one, but it beat faint and thready.

Her heart beat so hard, she could barely make out his response.

She won't beat you.

You saw what he did—he beat the shit out of me and dragged me into the bedroom!

How did they beat Death?

She sighed deeply as it beat against her sore muscles.

The guy I spoke to said he beat the ever-living shit out of them all at once, until they agreed to come back and do what Kris says.

Gabriel began to beat up the dummy again.

She ate her dinner, beat.

But we're going to beat them at their own game.

I let the bastard beat the shit out of me.

It's a fast action roving beat ' em up adventure.

Jonny shouted and beat on the door to the interrogation room.

After you beat me and win the election, there's no way you can fire me.

The door didn't even flinch as she beat her fists against it as hard as she could.

The French doors were locked, and she beat on them, looking around wildly for deck furniture to break the glass.

She breathed deeply of his scent and listened to his heart beat from her position sprawled atop him.

Rhyn.s voice made her heart skip a beat, and she craned her neck to see past Jared, who whirled.

The feel of several sets of eyes assessing her made her heart beat harder and her mouth dry.

Fred, who had tagged along, beat a hasty retreat downstairs, making the excuse of a trip to the library.

A waitress neared them but beat a quick retreat when she heard their strained tones.

Her heart skipped a beat as she hurried to the door.

Smaller vessels they were able to beat off and so, in spite of the activity of the British cruisers and of many sharp encounters, the concentration was effected at Boulogne, where an army of 130,000 was encamped and was incessantly practised in embarking and disembarking.

When two sources emit only pure tones we might expect that we should have no dissonance when, as in the major seventh, the beat frequency is greater than the range of harshness.

Treaty g 7 After a campaign of varying fortunes the Turks beat 1739.

Listen … listen … listen … He slapped his forehead with his palm in a rhythmic beat, waiting for some sort of divine inspiration.

You've got the beat boxing mastered, how about breaking?

The men of that party, remembering Suvorov, said that what one had to do was not to reason, or stick pins into maps, but to fight, beat the enemy, keep him out of Russia, and not let the army get discouraged.

For a moment her heart beat overtime and it looked as though she might fall, but Alex smoothly caught her and stepped around, covering her fumbling so well that no one appeared to notice.