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beat::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| Type of | overcome, defeat, get the better of |
| Has types | scoop, mate, eliminate, master, lick, jockey, exceed, rout, outscore, outpoint, immobilize, trump, walk over, immobilise, outplay, rack up, have the best, pip, get the jump, outperform, overcome, get the best, get over, outmatch, surpass, worst, outgo, whomp, bat, surmount, best, spreadeagle, cheat, checkmate, chicane, outflank, chouse, spread-eagle, thrash, outstrip, clobber, outfight, outdo, subdue, cream, whip, overpower, overmaster, overwhelm, shaft, screw, drub, mop up |
| Verb group | circumvent, outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox |
| Derivation | beatable, beating |
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship.
We beat the competition.
beat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| Type of | periodic event, recurrent event |
| Has types | diastole, throb, pounding, throbbing, systole |
he could feel the beat of her heart.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | musical rhythm, rhythm |
| Type of | musical time |
| Has types | upbeat, backbeat, offbeat, downbeat, syncopation |
the conductor set the beat.
beat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beatnik |
| Type of | recusant, nonconformist |
beat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| Type of | poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern |
| Has types | foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, common meter, common measure, catalexis, scansion |
beat::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat up, work over |
| Has types | flog, baste, strap, batter, spank, thrash, belabor, belabour, cane, soak, clobber, slash, thresh, rough up, flail, trounce, welt, pistol-whip, kayo, knock cold, knock out, lam, lambast, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, whip, paddle, strong-arm |
| Derivation | beating |
Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night.
The teacher used to beat the students.
beat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | vibration, oscillation |
beat::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | strike |
beat one's breast.
beat one's foot rhythmically.
beat::verb | Spocien Dictionary
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beat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sailing |
Examples of beat
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We had to beat Green Bay in the last game of the season to go into the playoffs.
From the dailyherald.com
Add the lemon juice and beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
From the dailyherald.com
Canada is out of it and Jamaica needs to beat Canada by as many goals as it can.
From the stltoday.com
The Mets get beat up for a lot of transgressions around here, and rightfully so.
From the newsday.com
Not only did New York beat Atlanta, 9-5, but Philadelphia lost to Florida, 14-8.
From the newsday.com
Toronto kept pace with eighth-place Buffalo, which beat Atlanta 8-2 on Saturday.
From the sacbee.com
She told officers that Buck beat her and attempted to drown her, documents said.
From the thenewstribune.com
He showed steady improvement but still beat just one ranked opponent all season.
From the omaha.com
Earnings and sales beat the averages of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
From the bloomberg.com
- A regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
- All in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
- 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"
- Pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
- 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"
- Hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
- Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time. ...
- Beat is a Japanese movie released in Japan in 1998, directed by Amon Miyamoto, set in the 60's in Okinawa. It was screened at critics week at the 1998 Venice film festival.
- Beat is an American made movie, produced in 2000, concerning the part of the life of writer William S. Burroughs that he spent with his wife, the late Joan Vollmer.
