beat

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• enPR: bēt, IPA: /biːt/, SAMPA: /bi:t/
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• Homophones: beet
• Rhymes: -iːt

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English beatan. Confer Old High German bozan, Old Norse bauta.

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beat (plural beats)

1. A pulsation or throb.
2. 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.
3. A rhythm.
4. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
5. A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
6. (law enforcement) The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat.
7. In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
8. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A small part of a dramatic play.

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to beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten)

1. 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.

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

   He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

3. To win against; to defeat; 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.

4. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
5. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

   Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

6. (impersonal): It beats X Y = X cannot understand Y, where Y is an indirect question.

   (said by Fred Dibnah): It beats me how she [= the Queen] keeps tabs on everybody

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beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)

1. (gay slang) fabulous

   Her makeup was beat!

2. exhausted

   After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

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• Wikisaurus has an article on “tired” in the sense of “exhausted”.

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From beatnik

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beat (plural beats)

1. A beatnik.

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• beat generation

[edit] References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

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• Alphagram: abet
• bate
• beta, Beta

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From English

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beat (plural beats, diminutive beatje, diminutive plural beatjes)

1. A beat, rhythmic pulsation, notably in music

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[edit] Finnish

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beat

1. A beat (in music)

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Declension of beat (type risti) singular plural nominative beat beatit genitive beatin beatien partitive beatiä beatejä accusative beat beatin beatit inessive beatissä beateissä elative beatistä beateistä illative beatiin beateihin adessive beatillä beateillä ablative beatiltä beateiltä allative beatille beateille essive beatinä beateinä translative beatiksi beateiksi instructive – beatein abessive beatittä beateittä comitative – beateineen

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[edit] Italian

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English

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beat inv.

1. beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)

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beat m. inv.

1. beat (rhythm accompanying music)

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[edit] Romanian

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From Latin bibitus 'drunk'

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• IPA: [bjat]

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beat ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. drunk, intoxicated; tipsy

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• treaz

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beat

1. happiness