beat

A stroke; a blow.

A pulsation or throb.

a beat of the heart

the beat of the pulse

(music) 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.

I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

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

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

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

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

(colloquial, dated)That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

the beat of him

(Southern US, dated, obsolete)(dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.

(dated)A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(transitive)To hit; to 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.

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

He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

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

(intransitive)To move with pulsation or throbbing.

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

Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.

No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.

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

(intransitive)(intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

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

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

(UK, transitive)(transitive, UK, 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.

Đồng nghĩa: negotiate

(transitive)To indicate by beating or drumming.

to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

To tread, as a path.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

(US, slang)(US slang) Exhausted.

After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

(slang)Dilapidated, beat up.

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

(African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.

Her face was beat for the gods!

(slang)Boring.

(slang)(slang, of a person) Ugly.

Relating to the Beat Generation.

beat poetry