Look up: beat

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   Beat
   Briskly whipping or stirring it with a spoon, fork, wire whisk, beater or mixer.
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   Beat
   Briskly whipping or stirring it with a spoon, fork, wire whisk, beater or mixer.
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   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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   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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   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 beating to windward 7. [v] - be superior 8. [v] - glare or strike with great intensity 9. [v] - move with a thrashing motion 10. [v] - move with a flapping motion 11. [v] - sail with much tacking or with difficulty 12. [v] - indicate by beating 13. [v] - move rhythmically 14. [v] - make by pounding or trampling 15. [v] - produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly 16. [v] - shape by beating 17. [v] - stir vigorously 18. [v] - strike (a part of one`s own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music 19. [v] - strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting 20. [v] - hit repeatedly 21. [v] - give a beating to 22. [v] - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
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   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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   Beat
   The ‘tick` of a clock or watch, produced as a pallet comes into contact with the escape-wheel.
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   Beat
   crisp striking movement of the opponent's blade creating a deflection, or obtaining a reaction; used as a preparation
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   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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    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 variation in the amplitude of an oscillation resulting from the superposition of two periodic oscil...
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    Beat
    Definition (keystage 3) The characteristic sound produced by the interference of two similar frequencies of sound.
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    Beat
    Beat (bēt) transitive verb [ imperfect Beat ; past participle Beat , Beaten ; present participle & verbal noun Beating .] [ Middle English beaten , beten , Anglo-Saxon beátan ; akin to Icelandic bauta , Old High German b...zan . Confer 1st Butt
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    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 throbbing. « A thousand hearts beat happily. Byron. » 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to ...
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    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 the pulse. 3. (Mus.) (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so m ...
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    Beat
    Beat adjective Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [ Colloq.] « Quite beat , and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens. »
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    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 news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop. « It's a beat on the whole country.» Scribner's ...
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    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 plates.' (Ex. Xxxix. 3) ... 2. To punish by blows; to ...
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    beat
    noun a regular rate of repetition; `the cox raised the beat`
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    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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    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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    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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    beat
    pound verb move rhythmically; `Her heart was beating fast`
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    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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    beat
    verb hit repeatedly; `beat on the door`; `beat the table with his shoe`
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    beat
    verb shape by beating; `beat swords into ploughshares`
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