Beat

Meaning of Beat

noun
  1. A stroke; a blow.
  2. A pulsation or throb.
    a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
  3. 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.
  4. A rhythm.
  5. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
  6. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
  7. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
  8. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
  9. An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
  10. That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
    the beat of him
  11. A precinct.
  12. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  13. A low cheat or swindler.
    a dead beat
  14. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
  15. The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
  16. A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
verb
  1. To hit; strike
    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.
  2. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
    He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
  3. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  4. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  5. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
    I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
  6. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  7. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
  8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
    Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
  9. (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
    He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
  10. To indicate by beating or drumming.
    to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
  11. To tread, as a path.
  12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  13. To be in agitation or doubt.
  14. To make a sound when struck.
    The drums beat.
  15. To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
    The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
  16. 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.
  17. To arrive at a place before someone.
    He beat me there.
  18. To have sexual intercourse.
    Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
  19. To rob.
    He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
adjective
  1. Exhausted
    After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
  2. Dilapidated, beat up
    Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
  3. Fabulous
    Her makeup was beat!
  4. Boring
  5. (of a person) ugly

noun

A beatnik.

Information about Beat

  • It's a proper name.
  • The plural form of Beat is: Beats.
  • Languages ​​in which Beat is used:

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Hyphenation of Beat

Beat

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • Beat is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Beat synonyms

Meaning all in:

bushed, dead

Meaning round:

round

Meaning pulse:

pulse, pulsation, heartbeat

Meaning rhythm:

rhythm

Meaning beatnik:

beatnik

Meaning meter:

meter, metre, measure, cadence

Meaning beat out:

crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

Meaning pound:

pound, thump

Meaning drum:

drum, thrum

Meaning flap:

flap

Meaning scramble:

scramble

Meaning bunk:

bunk

Meaning tick:

tick, ticktock, ticktack

Meaning pulsate:

pulsate, quiver

Meaning outwit:

outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, circumvent

Meaning perplex:

perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

Meaning exhaust:

exhaust, tucker

Meaning To hit; strike:

hammer, knock, strike, whack

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

negotiate

Meaning To have sexual intercourse.:

shag

Anagrams of Beat

abet, Bate, bate, Beta, beta

Words that rhyme with Beat

beat, bloodbeat, deadbeat, bluebeat, farebeat, pulsebeat, rebeat, hoofbeat, offbeat, swingbeat, wingbeat, backbeat, breakbeat, drumbeat, burnbeat, downbeat, sunbeat, upbeat, afterbeat, overbeat, underbeat, newsbeat, footbeat, heartbeat, browbeat, drybeat

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