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Definition beat

Etymology 1

From Middle English beten, from Old English b?atan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd- (“to hit, strike”) (compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confut? (“I strike down”), f?stis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian ???? (but?)).

Noun

beat (plural beats)

1. A stroke; a blow.
2. A pulsation or throb.
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. (music) [specifically] The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
6. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
7. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
8. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
9. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
   1. In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
10. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
11. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
12. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
13. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
14. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
15. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
16. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Verb

beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or beat)

1. (transitive) To hit; strike
2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
6. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. (transitive) 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.
9. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
10. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
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.
15. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
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. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
18. (intransitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.

Adjective

beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)

1. (US slang) exhausted
2. dilapidated, beat up
3. (gay slang) fabulous
4. (slang) boring
5. (slang, of a person) ugly

Etymology 2

From beatnik

Noun

beat (plural beats)

1. A beatnik.

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