Beat

/biːt/ · noun

Meaning

A stroke; a blow..

Definitions by Sense

1. A stroke; a blow.
2. A pulsation or throb.
3. (music) 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.
5. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
6. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
7. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
8. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

Example Sentences

He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

a beat of the heart

the beat of the pulse

I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

It's a beat on the whole country.

the beat of him

a dead beat

“If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.

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• beating
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• beated
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• beatest
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