📖 Definitions of "Beat"
- 1
A stroke; a blow.
- 2
A pulsation or throb.
"a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse"
- 3
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.
- 4
A rhythm.
- 1
To hit; strike
"As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled."
- 2
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
"He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."
- 3
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- 4
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- 1
Exhausted
"After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."
- 2
Dilapidated, beat up
"Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."
- 3
Fabulous
"Her makeup was beat!"
- 4
Boring
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