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 General (32 matching dictionaries)
- beat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- beat: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- beat: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- BEAT, Beat, beat: Wordnik [home, info]
- Beat, beat: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Beat: Wiktionary [home, info]
- beat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- beat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- beat: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- beat: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- Beat, beat: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- beat: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
- BEAT (song), Beat (King Crimson album), Beat (acoustics), Beat (album), Beat (band), Beat (film), Beat (hip hop), Beat (music), Beat (name), Beat (soda), Beat (video game character), Beat, The Beat (TV series), The Beat (U.S. band), The Beat (US), The Beat (band), The Beat (television), The (English) Beat, The Beat, .beat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- beat: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Beat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- beat: Rhymezone [home, info]
- beat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- BEAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
- beat: All About Homonyms [home, info]
- Beat, Beat, Beat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- Beat: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- beat: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: ESL Idiom Page [home, info]
- beat: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- beat: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- beat: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- beat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (6 matching dictionaries)
- beat: Essentials of Music [home, info]
- BEAT: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
- BEAT: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
- Beat: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
- Beat: Jazz Humor [home, info]
- beat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- Beat (album), beat: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- Beat (acoustics), Beat (album), beat: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- beat: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- beat: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- Beat (album), beat: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
- beat: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
- BEAT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- BEAT: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
- beat: Idioms [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- beat [1], beat [2], beat [3]: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]
Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
- Beat: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade [home, info]
- beat: The Folk File [home, info]
- beat: ESL Slang page [home, info]
Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
- beat: Football Glossary [home, info]
- Beat, beat: Sports Terms [home, info]
- beat: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
- Beat: Sports Definitions [home, info]
- beat: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]
Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
- Beat: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
- beat: Rane Professional Audio Reference [home, info]
- beat: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Beat: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
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Quick definitions (beat)
▸ noun: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
▸ noun: a stroke or blow ("The signal was two beats on the steam pipe")
▸ noun: a regular rate of repetition ("The cox raised the beat")
▸ noun: the sound of stroke or blow ("He heard the beat of a drum")
▸ noun: a regular route for a sentry or policeman ("In the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name")
▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music ("The conductor set the beat")
▸ noun: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
▸ noun: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
▸ noun: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart ("He could feel the beat of her heart")
▸ verb: move with a flapping motion
▸ verb: move with a thrashing motion ("The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky")
▸ verb: glare or strike with great intensity ("The sun was beating down on us")
▸ verb: avoid paying ("Beat the subway fare")
▸ verb: be superior ("Reading beats watching television")
▸ verb: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict ("Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship")
▸ verb: 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")
▸ verb: hit repeatedly ("Beat on the door")
▸ verb: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
▸ verb: strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music ("Beat one's breast")
▸ verb: stir vigorously ("Beat the egg whites")
▸ verb: shape by beating ("Beat swords into ploughshares")
▸ verb: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly ("Beat the drum")
▸ verb: make by pounding or trampling ("Beat a path through the forest")
▸ verb: move rhythmically ("Her heart was beating fast")
▸ verb: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks ("Beat the rhythm")
▸ verb: sail with much tacking or with difficulty ("The boat beat in the strong wind")
▸ verb: make a rhythmic sound ("The drums beat all night")
▸ verb: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
▸ verb: wear out completely ("I'm beat")
▸ verb: make a sound like a clock or a timer ("The grandfather clock beat midnight")
▸ verb: beat through cleverness and wit ("I beat the traffic")
▸ verb: be a mystery or bewildering to ("This beats me!")
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #58553)
▸ Also see beat
▸ U.S. pronunciation (credits)
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