beat /bit/
1. a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
synset: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat
3. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
synset: rhythm, beat, musical_rhythm
4. 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
synset: beat
5. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
6. the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
synset: beat
7. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
synset: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence
8. a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
synset: beat
9. a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
synset: beat
10. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
synset: beat
1. 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"
synset: beat, beat_out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
2. 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"
synset: beat, beat_up, work_over
3. hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
synset: beat
4. move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
5. shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
synset: beat
6. make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
7. glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
synset: beat
8. move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
9. sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
synset: beat
10. stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
11. 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"
synset: beat
12. be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
synset: beat
13. avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
14. make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
synset: tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat
15. move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
16. indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
synset: beat
17. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
18. make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
synset: beat
19. produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
synset: beat
20. strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
synset: beat
21. beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
synset: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
22. 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"
synset: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
23. wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
synset: exhaust, wash_up, beat, tucker, tucker_out
1. 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"
synset: all_in, beat, bushed, dead
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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