beat - beaten/beat

Phonetic: "/biːt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A stroke; a blow.

Definition: A pulsation or throb.

Example: a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse

Definition: 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.

Definition: A rhythm.

Definition: The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

Definition: (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.

Definition: The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

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

Definition: An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

Definition: That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

Example: the beat of him

Definition: A precinct.

Definition: A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Definition: A low cheat or swindler.

Example: a dead beat

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

Definition: The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

Definition: A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Phonetic: "/biːt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To hit; strike

Example: 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.

Definition: To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

Example: He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

Definition: To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

Definition: To move with pulsation or throbbing.

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

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

Definition: To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

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

Definition: To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Example: Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

Definition: (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

Example: He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

Definition: To indicate by beating or drumming.

Example: to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

Definition: To tread, as a path.

Definition: To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Definition: To be in agitation or doubt.

Definition: To make a sound when struck.

Example: The drums beat.

Definition: To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

Example: The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

Definition: 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.

Definition: To arrive at a place before someone.

Example: He beat me there.

Definition: To have sexual intercourse.

Example: Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

Definition: To rob.

Example: He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

Phonetic: "/biːt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Exhausted

Example: After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

Definition: Dilapidated, beat up

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

Definition: Fabulous

Example: Her makeup was beat!

Definition: Boring

Definition: (of a person) ugly