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beat English

Meaning beat meaning

What does beat mean?
Definitions in simple English

beat Verb

— If you beat someone or something, you hit it, usually many times. It made a loud noise when he beat the drum. I had to leave and divorce my husband, because he kept beating and choking me. — If you beat a person or a team, you win and they lose. The best team usually beats the worst one.

beat Noun

— Beat is the rhythm of music. — A heartbeat.

beat

— 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 — 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 — verb hit repeatedly beat on the door beat the table with his shoe — verb move rhythmically Her heart was beating fast — verb shape by beating beat swords into ploughshares — verb (= drum) make a rhythmic sound Rain drummed against the windshield The drums beat all night — verb glare or strike with great intensity The sun was beating down on us — verb (= flap) move with a thrashing motion The bird flapped its wings The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky — verb sail with much tacking or with difficulty The boat beat in the strong wind — verb strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music beat one's breast beat one's foot rhythmically — verb stir vigorously beat the egg whites beat the cream — 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 — noun (= rhythm) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music the piece has a fast rhythm the conductor set the beat — noun the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart he could feel the beat of her heart — noun the sound of stroke or blow he heard the beat of a drum — noun a regular rate of repetition the cox raised the beat — noun a stroke or blow the signal was two beats on the steam pipe — noun the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing — 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 — verb strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting — verb indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks Beat the rhythm — verb produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly beat the drum — verb make by pounding or trampling beat a path through the forest — verb (= flap) move with a flapping motion The bird's wings were flapping — verb be superior Reading beats watching television This sure beats work! — verb avoid paying beat the subway fare — adjective (= all in, bushed, dead) 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 — verb (= pulsate) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion the city pulsated with music and excitement — noun a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior — verb (= exhaust, wash up) wear out completely This kind of work exhausts me I'm beat He was all washed up after the exam — noun (= meter) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse — verb (= tick) make a sound like a clock or a timer the clocks were ticking the grandfather clock beat midnight — verb (= outfox) beat through cleverness and wit I beat the traffic She outfoxed her competitors — verb (= vex, stick, get, bewilder) be a mystery or bewildering to This beats me! Got me--I don't know the answer! a vexing problem This question really stuck me

Synonyms beat synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as beat?

beat English » English

strike hit defeat pound thrash knock whip throb flog overcome pulse lash win rhythm thump conquer bang hammer vanquish punch pulsate batter flap attack slap smite crush beat up smash kill blow thresh smack scourge palpitate beat out tempo stroke pulsation drum clap break trounce swing punish heartbeat drub belabour wallop tap

Topics beat topics

What do people use beat to talk about?
Person Body Internal organs

Heart
Physical actions Physical impact

Hit
Social behavior Conflict War

Defeat
Person Body condition

Tired
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Social behavior Social activity

Music
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police
Social behavior Law

Punish
Daily life Food Food preparation

Steps in food preparation
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Thresh

  • What words refer to threshing grain?
    thresh beat
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with metal
Physical actions Arrange

Mix
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Person Healthy

Injure
Person Life Die

Kill
Person Life Die

Mourn
Language and thought Communication Say True

Tell the truth
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Cooperate with

Compete with
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Leave
States Time

Telling time
States Time Relative time

Before

Conjugation beat conjugation

How do you conjugate beat?

beat · verb

Examples beat examples

How do I use beat in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I realized that I couldn't beat him in math.
She beat him to death with a golf club.
He who has a mind to beat a dog will easily find a stick.
You can't beat me.
She beat me at chess.
I told him not to beat the dog.
I can beat them all.
He won't beat me.
The rescue worker beat the area, looking for the child.
Don't beat around the bush.
Our soccer team beat all the other teams in the town.
Our team beat the Lions 3 to 0.
Don't beat about the bush.
First beat the eggs and add them to the soup.
Two high school boys beat Tom black and blue.
Beat it.
Don't beat around the bush; tell me who is to blame.
I'm beat. I've been working from dawn to dusk.
Tell me how to beat sleeplessness.
Don't beat your head against a stone wall.

Movie subtitles

Understanding how the West beat the rest gives us an insight not just into the past but also into the future, and I think you'II agree, it helps answer the question that could be the most important of our time.
And it came to pass that, in the same year, they had a number of battles in which the Nephites did beat the Lamanites and did slay many of them.
We can beat all the bad guys with just our pinky fingers.
So have I made my point, Or do I have to beat them again with just one pinky?
You know, it must be hard, knowing all the facts, to still believe you can actually beat this.
He found out about their affair, beat the living crap out of Abelard.
But if you want me to talk, you got to beat me.
Dad can only tease the beat drop for so long.
Drop the beat.
No doubt one of my competitors beat me to it.
They knew they couldn't beat me.
More interestingly, he bet on the field to beat Sophie Palmer.
Beat it, sorcerer!
You can beat that, but you can't tie it.
That we'll beat the French!
Listen! Let's not beat around the bush.
Well look, if we can't get in his face, how are we -supposed to beat him?
Well, sure, nothing would beat ending this mess in a peaceful manner, but to be completely honest, I doubt they'll talk to us.
Please. beat me!
His heart would beat for the people, would decide in its favour.
Beat me up!
So I beat it east, like I told you.
He beat it.
Yeah, but Rico's wreath beat them all.
You guys better beat it.
You'd better take your hats and beat it.
Let's beat it!
Beat you that time.
Beat me.
Anyway, if I wanted info out of you, I'd just..beat it out of you. Get off me, you lunatic woman!
We can't beat a pack of alphas.
Let's beat it before he gets us!
When you see me flop, you flop. only try to beat me to it.
Beat his nose, he'll try to protect it.
If I ever catch you with Lil again I'll beat your ears off.
Can you beat it?
Let's beat Chiha, he attacked Gunpei.
Six can very well beat a weak one.

News and current affairs

Democrats have even managed to beat the Republicans on their own turf.
Many people look at Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon, among others, as companies that no competitor could ever beat.
The 1990's saw an unprecedented rise in the number of quarters in which earnings beat analysts' estimates by a penny a share, suggesting that more irregularities could be discovered.
But the fact that earnings beat estimates by a penny a share every quarter is itself only a sign of quarter-to-quarter manipulations of earnings, not of their wholesale fabrication.
And if Indians can be better than white and black sportsmen on the cricket field, why can't they beat them in an Olympic stadium?
They must still train, of course, but if their genes produce more EPO than ours, they are going to beat us in the Tour de France, no matter how hard we train.
It is easy to conclude that there is just no point in even trying to beat the market.
In these senses, Swensen is completely different from day traders, who are both investing for the short term and trying to beat the most crowded market - the market for exchange-listed securities.
Knowing David Swensen, I can attest that he is not a lonely day trader trying to beat the market.
True, the slump is partly an illusion: the earlier boom was fueled by Japanese households' effort to beat the tax by front-loading purchases of consumer durables - a nuance that seems to have been lost in the public debate.
The Global Fund has saved millions of lives and helped countries around the world beat back three epidemic diseases.
In each industry and region, companies will race to internalize China's new methods in order to beat their local and immediate competitors--just as US management methods have been internalized by companies around the world, including within China.
African hearts beat to a tribal rhythm.
He's preoccupied with his own enlarged heart, which, though weary, continues to beat.
For example, if family members beat or abuse a woman, she has few options.
There are now serious concerns that the so-called dark greens - the harder-line faction in Taiwan's pro-independence pan-green political camp - will seize this issue as a stick with which to beat President Chen.
Though bonds are hardly a perfect hedge against such risks, they typically beat stocks (except, perhaps, in cases of global conflagration, when both fare badly).
When Holland beat Germany in the semi-finals of the 1988 European Championship, it was as though justice finally had been done.
The crowd began to chant nationalist slogans, and then proceeded to beat up passersby who did not look Slavic.
Of course, people use imoveyou for other purposes - everything from challenging a roommate to make his bed to encouraging a colleague to beat a sales record.
This is because most investors overreact to past returns, shifting their money around in a largely futile effort to channel it to managers who can beat the market.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority beat a hasty retreat from their moderate and accommodating positions.
In Yemen, you are free to beat your wife whenever you like.
When the Dutch had their revenge in 1988 and beat Germany to go on to become European champions, more people danced in the streets in Holland than on the day that the real war ended in May 1945.
Perhaps the best example of this type of sporting nationalism was not a football game, but the world ice hockey final in 1969, when Czechoslovakia beat the Soviet Union just one year after Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.

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