beat
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-Germanic *bautanan (“to push, strike”) (compare Low German boten, German boßen, Old Norse bauta), from Proto-Indo-European *bhau- (compare Old Irish fo-botha 'he threatened', Latin confutāre 'to strike down', fūstis 'stick, club', Albanian bahe 'sling', Lithuanian baudžiù, Bulgarian bútam 'I beat, knock', Armenian but' 'stump').
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beat (plural beats)
- A pulsation or throb.
- 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.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (law enforcement) The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat.
- In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
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Terms derived from beat (noun)
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pulse — see pulse
rhythm
interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
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pause with the camera focused on one shot
primary focus of a reporter's stories
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- (piece of hip-hop music): track
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beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten)
- (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
- As soon as she heard the news, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) 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, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
- (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.
- (nonstandard) Past participle of beat
- 1825?, "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters, page 231:
- Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall [...]
- 1825?, "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters, page 231:
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
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Terms derived from beat (verb)
[edit] Translations
to hit, to knock, to pound, to strike
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to strike or pound repeatedly
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to win against
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to whip
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beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
- (gay slang) fabulous
- Her makeup was beat!
- exhausted
- After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
- (US slang) dilapidated, beat up
- Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
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- See also Wikisaurus:fatigued
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fabulous
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exhausted
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From beatnik
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beat (plural beats)
- A beatnik.
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[edit] References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.
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beat m. (feminine beata, masculine plural beats, feminine plural beates)
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beat m. (plural beats)
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From English
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beat m. (plural beats, diminutive beatje)
- A beat, rhythmic pulsation, notably in music
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beat
- A beat (in music)
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Declension of beat (type risti)
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English
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beat inv.
- beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)
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beat m. inv.
- beat (rhythm accompanying music)
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beat
- third-person singular present active indicative of beō
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From Latin bibitus 'drunk', from bibere (“drink”).
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- IPA: [be̯at]
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beat 4 nom/acc forms
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declension of beat
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beat (plural beats)
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