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▸ noun: A pulsation or throb.
▸ noun: (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
▸ noun: A rhythm.
▸ noun: (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
▸ noun: The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
▸ noun: The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
▸ noun: (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
▸ noun: (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
▸ noun: The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
▸ noun: (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
▸ noun: (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
▸ noun: (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
▸ noun: (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
▸ noun: (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
▸ noun: (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
▸ noun: (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
▸ noun: (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
▸ noun: (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
▸ noun: (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hit; to strike.
▸ verb: (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
▸ verb: (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
▸ verb: (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
▸ verb: (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
▸ verb: To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
▸ verb: (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
▸ verb: (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
▸ verb: To tread, as a path.
▸ verb: To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
▸ verb: To be in agitation or doubt.
▸ verb: To make a sound when struck.
▸ verb: (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
▸ verb: To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
▸ verb: (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
▸ verb: (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
▸ verb: simple past tense of beat
▸ adjective: (US slang) Exhausted.
▸ adjective: (slang) Dilapidated, beat up.
▸ adjective: (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.
▸ adjective: (slang) Boring.
▸ adjective: (slang, of a person) Ugly.
▸ noun: A beatnik.
▸ adjective: Relating to the Beat Generation.
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