Definition of beats

"beats" 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

"beats" 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"

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Quotations for beats

Her pulse beats matrimony. [ Proverb ]

A goss-hawk beats not at a bunting. [ Proverb ]

The strongest castle, tower, and town,
The golden bullet beats it down. [ Shakespeare ]

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved.
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. [ Wordsworth ]

There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. [ Dekker ]

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. [ Proverb ]

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. [ James Martineau ]

Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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beats in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Longer words containing beats

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