means | (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" beat, round |
means | (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" beat, pulse, pulsation, heartbeat |
means | (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" musical rhythm, beat, rhythm |
means | (noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations beat |
means | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior beat, beatnik |
means | (noun) the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" beat |
means | (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse measure, beat, metre, meter, cadence |
means | (noun) a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" beat |
means | (noun) a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" beat |
means | (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing beat |
means | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" crush, vanquish, beat out, trounce, shell, beat |
means | (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" work over, beat, beat up |
means | (verb) hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" beat |
means | (verb) move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" pound, beat, thump |
means | (verb) shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" beat |
means | (verb) make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" thrum, drum, beat |
means | (verb) glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" beat |
means | (verb) move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" flap, beat |
means | (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" beat |
means | (verb) stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" scramble, beat |
means | (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" beat |
means | (verb) be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" beat |
means | (verb) avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" bunk, beat |
means | (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" ticktock, tick, ticktack, beat |
means | (verb) move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" flap, beat |
means | (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" beat |
means | (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" pulsate, quiver, beat |
means | (verb) make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" beat |
means | (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" beat |
means | (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting beat |
means | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" beat, outsmart, overreach, outfox, circumvent, outwit |
means | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" amaze, vex, beat, nonplus, perplex, baffle, stupefy, bewilder, gravel, mystify, dumbfound, puzzle, get, flummox, pose, stick |
means | (verb) wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" tucker, tucker out, beat, wash up, exhaust |
means | (adjective) very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" beat, all in, dead, bushed |
means | e/Beat (King Crimson album) |
means | e/Beat (filmmaking) |