Beat
A regular route for a sentry or policeman
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Entails
Has types
Examples
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
We beat the competition
Move rhythmically
Be a mystery or bewildering to
Wear out completely
Make a sound like a clock or a timer
The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
Examples
He could feel the beat of her heart
The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
Type of
Examples
The conductor set the beat
Very tired
Usage of
Similar to
Examples
So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
Entails
Has types
Derivation
Examples
Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
The teacher used to beat the students
Move with a thrashing motion
Beat through cleverness and wit
Stir vigorously
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
A stroke or blow
Type of
Examples
The signal was two beats on the steam pipe
Be superior
Type of
Examples
Reading beats watching television
This sure beats work!
Glare or strike with great intensity
Type of
Examples
The sun was beating down on us
Hit repeatedly
Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
Make by pounding or trampling
Sail with much tacking or with difficulty
Shape by beating
Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
Type of
Examples
Beat one's breast
Beat one's foot rhythmically
Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
Type of
The sound of stroke or blow
Type of
Examples
He heard the beat of a drum