Look up: Beat

1. Beat
   The basic unit of musical time. Beats are normally grouped together into regular groups called bars, and depending on how beats are accented different characteristic rhythms will result.
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2. Beat
   The rhythmic or musical quality of a poem. In metrical verse, this is determined by the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. However, free verse often features a beat e.g. the work of Walt Whitman. Beat is one of the main things distinguishing poetry from prose.
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3. beat
   [n] - a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies 2. [n] - a regular route for a sentry or policeman 3. [n] - the sound of stroke or blow 4. [n] - a regular rate of repetition 5. [n] - a stroke or blow 6. [n] - the act of beat...
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4. Beat
   1) The steady even pulse in music.
   2) The action of two sounds or audio signals mixing together and causing regular rises &.falls in volume.
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5. Beat
   The ‘tick` of a clock or watch, produced as a pallet comes into contact with the escape-wheel.
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6. Beat
   crisp striking movement of the opponent's blade creating a deflection, or obtaining a reaction; used as a preparation
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7. Beat
   an attempt to knock the opponent's blade aside or out of line by using one's foible or middle against the opponent's foible
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8. beat
   a) a minor executive forest charge, essentially protective, commonly a subdivision of a range under the charge of a forest guard or comparable junior rank; b) a major protective subdivision of a forest Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • the periodic...
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9. Beat
   Beat (bēt) transitive verb [ imperfect Beat ; past participle Beat , Beaten ; present participle & verbal noun Beating .] [ Middle English
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10. Beat
    Beat intransitive verb 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. « The men of the city . . . beat at the door. Judges. xix. 22. » 2. To move with pulsation or throbbin...
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11. Beat
    Beat noun 1. A stroke; a blow. « He, with a careless beat , Struck out the mute creation at a heat. Dryden. » 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of ...
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12. Beat
    Beat adjective Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [ Colloq.] « Quite beat , and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens. »
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13. Beat
    Beat noun 1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [ Colloq.] 2. The act of one that beats a person or thing ; as: (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of ...
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14. beat
    1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. 'Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.' (Ex. Xxx. 36) 'They did beat the gold into thin pla...
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15. beat
    noun a regular rate of repetition; `the cox raised the beat`
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16. beat
    noun the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
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17. beat
    round 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`
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18. beat
    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
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19. beat
    pound verb move rhythmically; `Her heart was beating fast`
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20. beat
    beat out verb 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`
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21. beat
    verb hit repeatedly; `beat on the door`; `beat the table with his shoe`
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22. beat
    verb shape by beating; `beat swords into ploughshares`
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23. beat
    verb be superior; `Reading beats watching television`; `This sure beats work!`
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24. beat
    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`; `The teacher used to beat the students`
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25. beat
    verb avoid paying; `beat the subway fare`
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