Definition of Beat

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Definition of Beat

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To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

To punish by blows; to thrash.

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

To tread, as a path.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

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

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

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.

A stroke; a blow.

A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.

A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.

The act of one that beats a person or thing

The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.

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

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

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Beat Quotations

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George Carlin

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
Groucho Marx

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Will Rogers

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
Lou Holtz

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beat Translations

beat in Dutch is afranselen
beat in German is Schlag, schlagen, Runde
beat in Italian is picchiare
beat in Norwegian is slag
beat in Portuguese is bater, batida
beat in Spanish is batido

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