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Is beat a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.
2. A rhythm.
3. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
4. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especiallyExamples: "to walk the beat"; "There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss."; "[…]the rise of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat” is a school. Those officers report to the local police department and not the school, and can, and frequently do, have different priorities."broadly
5. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especiallyExamples: "As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession."Synonyms: newsbeatbroadly
6. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.Examples: "It's a beat on the whole country."dated
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To hit; to strike.Examples: "As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled."; "Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall […]"; "The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack."Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack, abuse, aggress, assailtransitive
2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.Examples: "He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."transitive
3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.Examples: "[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]"; "The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die."; "This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.Examples: "A thousand hearts beat happily."; "O heart, how fares it with thee now, That thou should’st fail from thy desire, Who scarcely darest to inquire, ‘What is it makes me beat so low?’"intransitive
5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.Examples: "Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row."; "No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him."; "I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game."transitive
6. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.intransitive
verb (English)
1. (especially colloquial) past participle of beatcolloquialespeciallyform-ofparticiplepast
adj (English)
1. (US slang) Exhausted.Examples: "After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."; "I stayed in San Francisco a week and had the beatest time of my life. Marylou and I walked around for miles, looking for food-money."USslang
2. (slang) Dilapidated, beat up.Examples: "Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."slang
3. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.Examples: "Her face was beat for the gods!"
4. (slang) Boring.slang
5. (slang, of a person) Ugly.slang
Definition source: Wiktionary