Meaning of beat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stroke; a blow.
2. A beatnik.
3. A stroke; a blow
4. A pulsation or throb.
5. Baseball To reach base safely on (a bunt or ground ball) when a putout is attempted.
   Baseball
6. A pulsation or throb
7. 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.
8. To be impressive or amazing. Often used in negative conditional constructions: If that doesn't beat all!
9. 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
10. A rhythm.
11. To make a hasty withdrawal.
12. A rhythm
13. The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
14. To fail to confront a subject directly.
15. The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians
16. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
17. To leave hurriedly.
18. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
19. To make an exhaustive search.
20. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
21. To give enthusiastic public support or promotion: a politician who beats the drum for liberalism.
22. An area of a person's responsibility, especially
    broadly
23. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
    broadly
24. To an extreme degree.
25. The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
    broadly
26. To make a mixture smooth and aerated by rapidly turning it using a hand beater, electric mixer, wire whisk or spoon.
27. An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
    dated
28. To be projected with blinding intensity:blaze, glare.
29. That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
    colloquial, dated
30. A precinct.
    Southern-US, dated, obsolete
31. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
    dated
32. An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
    Australia, dated
33. A low cheat or swindler.
    archaic
34. The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
35. A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
36. A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
    slang

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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.”

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