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A regular route for a sentry or policeman In the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name |
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The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart He could feel the beat of her heart |
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The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music The piece has a fast rhythm The conductor set the beat |
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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 |
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A member of the beat generation A nonconformist in dress and behavior |
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The sound of stroke or blow He heard the beat of a drum |
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(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
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A regular rate of repetition The cox raised the beat |
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A stroke or blow The signal was two beats on the steam pipe |
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The act of beating to windward Sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hit repeatedly Beat on the door Beat the table with his shoe |
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Move rhythmically Her heart was beating fast |
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Shape by beating Beat swords into ploughshares |
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Make a rhythmic sound Rain drummed against the windshield The drums beat all night |
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Glare or strike with great intensity The sun was beating down on us |
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Move with a thrashing motion The bird flapped its wings The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky |
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Sail with much tacking or with difficulty The boat beat in the strong wind |
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Stir vigorously Beat the egg whites Beat the cream |
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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 |
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Be superior Reading beats watching television This sure beats work! |
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Avoid paying Beat the subway fare |
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Make a sound like a clock or a timer The clocks were ticking The grandfather clock beat midnight |
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Move with a flapping motion The bird's wings were flapping |
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Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks Beat the rhythm |
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Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion The city pulsated with music and excitement |
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Make by pounding or trampling Beat a path through the forest |
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Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly Beat the drum |
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Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting |
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Beat through cleverness and wit I beat the traffic She outfoxed her competitors |
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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 |
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Wear out completely This kind of work exhausts me I'm beat He was all washed up after the exam |
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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 |
| adj | all in, bushed, dead, tired |
| noun | round, path, route, itinerary |
| noun | pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, periodic event, recurrent event
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| noun | rhythm, musical rhythm, musical time
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| noun | oscillation, vibration |
| noun | beatnik, nonconformist, recusant |
| noun | sound |
| noun | meter, metre, measure, cadence, poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody |
| noun | pace, rate |
| noun | stroke |
| noun | sailing |
| verb | beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish, get the better of, overcome, defeat |
| verb | beat up, work over
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| verb | strike |
| verb | pound, thump, move |
| verb | shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge |
| verb | drum, thrum, sound, go |
| verb | glare |
| verb | flap, move, displace |
| verb | sail |
| verb | scramble, agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up
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| verb | strike |
| verb | be |
| verb | bunk, cheat, rip off, chisel |
| verb | tick, ticktock, ticktack, sound, go |
| verb | flap, move |
| verb | pulsate, quiver, move |
| verb | make, create |
| verb | play |
| verb | outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, circumvent, surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform |
| verb | perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound, confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate |
| verb | exhaust, wash up, tucker, tucker out, tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue |