Definitions for beat

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Spelling: [beet]

IPA: /bit/

Beat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in beat (abet).

Definitions for beat

noun

1. a stroke or blow.
2. the sound made by one or more such blows:
3. a throb or pulsation:
4. the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.
5. one's assigned or regular path or habitual round:
6. Music. the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.
7. Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions:
8. Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.
9. Physics. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations.
10. Journalism. the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals. Compare exclusive (def 13), scoop (def 9). Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering.
11. a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi.
12. (often initial capital letter) Informal. beatnik.

Idioms

1. beat all, Informal. to surpass anything of a similar nature, especially in an astonishing or outrageous way:
2. beat a retreat. retreat (def 12).
3. beat around / about the bush. bush1 (def 16).
4. beat it, Informal. to depart; go away:
5. beat the air / wind, to make repeated futile attempts.
6. beat the rap. rap1 (def 17).
7. off one's beat, outside of one's routine, general knowledge, or range of experience:
8. on the beat, in the correct rhythm or tempo:

adjective

1. Informal. exhausted; worn out.
2. (often initial capital letter) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.

Verb phrases

1. beat about, to search through; scour: Nautical. to tack into the wind.
2. beat back, to force back; compel to withdraw:
3. beat down, to bring into subjection; subdue. Informal. to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something:
4. beat off, to ward off; repulse: Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
5. beat out, Informal. to defeat; win or be chosen over: Carpentry. to cut (a mortise). to produce hurriedly, especially by writing or typing: Baseball. (of a hitter) to make (an infield ground ball or bunt) into a hit:
6. beat up, Also, beat up on. to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: British Informal. to find or gather; scare up:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
2. to dash against:
3. to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against:
4. to sound, as on a drum:
5. to stir vigorously:
6. to break, forge, or make by blows:
7. to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts:
8. to make (a path) by repeated treading.
9. to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously:
10. Music. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.
11. Hunting. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.
12. to overcome in a contest; defeat.
13. to win over in a race:
14. to be superior to:
15. to be incomprehensible to; baffle:
16. to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved:
17. to mitigate or offset the effects of:
18. Slang. to swindle; cheat (often followed by out):
19. to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).
20. Textiles. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.

verb (used without object)

1. to strike repeated blows; pound.
2. to throb or pulsate:
3. to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on):
4. to resound under blows, as a drum.
5. to achieve victory in a contest; win:
6. to play, as on a drum.
7. to scour cover for game.
8. Physics. to make a beat or beats.
9. (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping:
10. Nautical. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.

Origin of beat

before 900; Middle English beten, Old English bēatan; cognate with Old Norse bauta, Middle Low German bōten, Old High German bōzzan; akin to MIr búalaim I hit, Latin fūstis a stick *bheud-

Examples for beat

He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

Despite the scandal, Grimm beat his Democratic opponent by 18 points in November.

I too want to have experiences, to live where life's beat is most intense.

It went into remission, but it would resurface in 2011; and Scott was able to beat it once again.

And the pinto, for all his courage, could not meet that handicap and beat it.

He beat the army in the field, and then let the fortresses drop one by one into his hands.

It may have been the reason why Goldwater beat Rockefeller by three points, and effectively sewed up the GOP nomination.

The searchers, therefore, were directed to beat up the near-by country.

But underground classes have Persians getting with the beat.

beat the eggs, add the maple sirup, and add this to the milk.