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Beat (noun)
A stroke; a blow.
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Beat (noun)
A pulsation or throb.
“a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse”
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Beat (noun)
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.
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Beat (noun)
A rhythm.
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Beat (noun)
[specifically] The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
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Beat (noun)
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
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Beat (noun)
A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
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Beat (noun)
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
“to walk the beat”
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Beat (noun)
An area of a person’s responsibility, especially
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Beat (noun)
An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
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Beat (noun)
That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
“the beat of him”
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Beat (noun)
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
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Beat (noun)
A low cheat or swindler.
“a dead beat”
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Beat (noun)
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
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Beat (noun)
The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
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Beat (noun)
A smart tap on the adversary’s blade.
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Beat (noun)
A beatnik.
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Beat (verb)
To hit; strike
“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.”
“knock|pound|strike|hammer|whack”
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Beat (verb)
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
“He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.”
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Beat (verb)
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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Beat (verb)
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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Beat (verb)
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
“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.”
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Beat (verb)
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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Beat (verb)
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
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Beat (verb)
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
“Beat the eggs and whip the cream.”
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Beat (verb)
of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
“He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.”
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Beat (verb)
To indicate by beating or drumming.
“to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters”
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Beat (verb)
To tread, as a path.
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Beat (verb)
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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Beat (verb)
To be in agitation or doubt.
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Beat (verb)
To make a sound when struck.
“The drums beat.”
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Beat (verb)
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
“The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.”
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Beat (verb)
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
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Beat (verb)
To arrive at a place before someone.
“He beat me there.”
“The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.”
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Beat (verb)
to masturbate.
“This was the second time he beat off today.”
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Beat (adjective)
exhausted
“After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.”
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Beat (adjective)
dilapidated, beat up
“Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.”
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Beat (adjective)
fabulous
“Her makeup was beat!”
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Beat (adjective)
boring
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Beat (adjective)
ugly
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Track (noun)
A mark left by something that has passed along.
“Follow the track of the ship.”
“Can you see any tracks in the snow?”
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Track (noun)
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
“The fox tracks were still visible in the snow.”
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Track (noun)
The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
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Track (noun)
A road or other similar beaten path.
“Follow the track for a hundred metres.”
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Track (noun)
Physical course; way.
“Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.”
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Track (noun)
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
“The athletes ran round the track.”
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Track (noun)
The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
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Track (noun)
The way or rails along which a train moves.
“They briefly closed the railway to remove debris found on the track.”
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Track (noun)
A tract or area, such as of land.
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Track (noun)
Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
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Track (noun)
The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)
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Track (noun)
Short for caterpillar track.
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Track (noun)
The pitch.
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Track (noun)
Sound stored on a record.
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Track (noun)
The physical track on a record.
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Track (noun)
A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence
“My favourite track on the album is “Sunshine”.”
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Track (noun)
A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
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Track (noun)
The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
“I’m going to try out for track next week.”
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Track (noun)
A session talk on a conference.
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Track (verb)
To continue observing over time.
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Track (verb)
To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
“We will track the raven population over the next six months.”
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Track (verb)
To monitor the movement of a person or object.
“Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.”
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Track (verb)
To match the movement or change of a person or object.
“My height tracks my father’s at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.”
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Track (verb)
To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
“The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.”
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Track (verb)
To follow the tracks of.
“My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.”
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Track (verb)
To move.
“The hurricane tracked further west than expected.”
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Track (verb)
To discover the location of a person or object.
“I tracked Joe to his friend’s bedroom, where he had spent the night.”
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Track (verb)
To create a musical recording (a track).
“Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.””
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Track (verb)
To leave in the form of tracks.
“In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.”