beats
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Definition
noun (English)
1. a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks, beats
2. a regular route for a sentry or policemanExamples: "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"Synonyms: beat, round
3. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heartExamples: "he could feel the beat of her heart"Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse
4. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of musicExamples: "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"Synonyms: beat, musical rhythm, rhythm
5. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillationsSynonyms: beat
6. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behaviorSynonyms: beat, beatnik
verb (English)
1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflictExamples: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
2. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggressionExamples: "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"Synonyms: beat, beat up, work over
3. hit repeatedlyExamples: "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"Synonyms: beat
4. move rhythmicallyExamples: "Her heart was beating fast"Synonyms: beat, pound, thump
5. shape by beatingExamples: "beat swords into ploughshares"Synonyms: beat
6. make a rhythmic soundExamples: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"Synonyms: beat, drum, thrum
Definition source: Wiktionary