Definition of beat

"beat" in the noun sense

1. beat, round

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. pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat

the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

"he could feel the beat of her heart"

3. rhythm, beat, musical rhythm

the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

"the piece has a fast rhythm"

"the conductor set the beat"

4. beat

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

5. beatnik, beat

a member of the beat generation a nonconformist in dress and behavior

6. beat

the sound of stroke or blow

"he heard the beat of a drum"

7. meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence

prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

8. beat

a regular rate of repetition

"the cox raised the beat"

9. beat

a stroke or blow

"the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"

10. beat

the act of beating to windward sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

"beat" in the verb sense

1. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

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"

2. beat, beat up, work over

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"

3. beat

hit repeatedly

"beat on the door"

"beat the table with his shoe"

4. beat, pound, thump

move rhythmically

"Her heart was beating fast"

5. beat

shape by beating

"beat swords into ploughshares"

6. drum, beat, thrum

make a rhythmic sound

"Rain drummed against the windshield"

"The drums beat all night"

7. beat

glare or strike with great intensity

"The sun was beating down on us"

8. beat, flap

move with a thrashing motion

"The bird flapped its wings"

"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

9. beat

sail with much tacking or with difficulty

"The boat beat in the strong wind"

10. beat, scramble

stir vigorously

"beat the egg whites"

"beat the cream"

11. beat

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"

12. beat

be superior

"Reading beats watching television"

"This sure beats work!"

13. beat, bunk

avoid paying

"beat the subway fare"

14. tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat

make a sound like a clock or a timer

"the clocks were ticking"

"the grandfather clock beat midnight"

15. beat, flap

move with a flapping motion

"The bird's wings were flapping"

16. beat

indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks

"Beat the rhythm"

17. pulsate, beat, quiver

move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

"the city pulsated with music and excitement"

18. beat

make by pounding or trampling

"beat a path through the forest"

19. beat

produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly

"beat the drum"

20. beat

strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

21. outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent

beat through cleverness and wit

"I beat the traffic"

"She outfoxed her competitors"

22. perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

be a mystery or bewildering to

"This beats me!"

"Got me

23. exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out

wear out completely

"This kind of work exhausts me"

"I'm beat"

"He was all washed up after the exam"

"beat" in the adjective sense

1. all in, beat, bushed, dead

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"

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Quotations for beat

To beat about the bush. [ French ]

Beat the dog before the lion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Oh, may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see.
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tamed, my wishes laid;
For, while our wishes wildly roll.
We banish quiet from the soul.
It is thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care. [ Dyer ]

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead. [ Theodore O'Hara ]

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round. [ Milton ]

What should we speak of
When we are old as you?
When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December. [ William Shakespeare ]

Breasts that beat, and cheeks that glow. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A fair gamester among rooks must be beat. [ Proverb ]

Even a child may beat a man that is bound. [ Proverb ]

Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us. [ Carlyle ]

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. [ Pope ]

If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter. [ Proverb ]

An horse-kiss, like to beat one's teeth out. [ Proverb ]

It is an ill-bred dog that will beat a bitch. [ Proverb ]

A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone. [ Proverb ]

Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]

The rain-drops' showery dance and rhythmic beat,
With tinkling of innumerable feet. [ Abraham Coles ]

See the dapple coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs,
And chase it through the sky. [ Marston ]

It is an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog. [ Proverb ]

All the world, will beat the man whom fortune buffets. [ Proverb ]

I thought to bless myself, and I beat out both my eyes. [ Proverb ]

Here if you beat a bush, its odds but you start a thief. [ Proverb ]

When you have given me roast meat you beat me with the spit. [ Proverb ]

What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's? [ Tennyson ]

You shall never beat the fly from the candle, though she burn for it. [ Proverb ]

Fathers, in reclaiming of a child, should outwit him, and seldom beat him. [ Proverb ]

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. [ Tennyson ]

You may beat the devil into your wife, but you would never bang him out again. [ Proverb ]

We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude. [ Charles Buxton ]

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all in piety. [ Johnson ]

I clasp thy waist, I feel thy bosom's beat - oh, kiss me into faintness sweet and dim! [ Alexander Smith ]

The man who prates about the cruelty of angling will be found invariably to beat his wife. [ Christopher North ]

The rolling billows beat the rugged shore, as they the earth would shoulder from her seat. [ Spenser ]

Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience [ Mark Twain ]

He that condemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. [ L'Estrange ]

It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. [ Chapin ]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]

If we are involved in something where we want to win, and particularly something that is necessary, if there's something out there that we need to win, we are going to try and beat your ass every time we can. [ Bobby Knight, April 27, 2016, Fox News Town Hall ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

beat in Scrabble®

The word beat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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beat in Words With Friends™

The word beat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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