beat
Definitions
- A stroke; a blow.
- A beatnik.
- A stroke; a blow
- A pulsation or throb.
- Baseball To reach base safely on (a bunt or ground ball) when a putout is attempted.
- A pulsation or throb
- 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.
- To be impressive or amazing. Often used in negative conditional constructions: If that doesn't beat all!
- 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
- A rhythm.
- To make a hasty withdrawal.
- A rhythm
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- To fail to confront a subject directly.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- To leave hurriedly.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- To make an exhaustive search.
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- To give enthusiastic public support or promotion: a politician who beats the drum for liberalism.
- An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- To an extreme degree.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- To make a mixture smooth and aerated by rapidly turning it using a hand beater, electric mixer, wire whisk or spoon.
- An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- To be projected with blinding intensity:blaze, glare.
- That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- A precinct.
- A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
- A low cheat or swindler.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
Conjugation
Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of beat.
Equivalents
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བོད་སྐད།འཇོམས
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ລາວຕີ
Latviešusist
Македонскибие
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اردومارنا
Examples
“He, […]with a careless beat⟳, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.”
“a beat⟳ of the heart”
“the beat⟳ of the pulse”
“I love⟳ watching her dance⟳ to a pretty drum beat⟳ with a bouncy rhythm!”
“to walk⟳ the beat⟳”
“There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat⟳ saw⟳ a light⟳ there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.”
“[…]the rise⟳ of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat⟳” is a school. Those officers report⟳ to the local police department and not the school, and can, and frequently do, have⟳ different priorities.”
“"We are looking at being able to fly⟳ [drones] tens of miles from base⟳, which is going to make⟳ a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat⟳."”
“As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat⟳ is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.”
“It's a beat⟳ on the whole country.”
“the beat⟳ of him”
“a dead beat⟳”
““If I get⟳ away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove⟳ these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear⟳ they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.”
“Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last⟳ moment, when the beat⟳ is close⟳ to them.”
“She made sure to give⟳ fans all the details about her beat⟳ in the caption.”
“The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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