Beat (noun)
A stroke; a blow.
Beat (noun)
A pulsation or throb.
“a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse”
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.
Beat (noun)
A rhythm.
Beat (noun)
[specifically] The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
Beat (noun)
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
Beat (noun)
A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
Beat (noun)
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
“to walk the beat”
Beat (noun)
An area of a person’s responsibility, especially
Beat (noun)
An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
Beat (noun)
That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
“the beat of him”
Beat (noun)
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
Beat (noun)
A low cheat or swindler.
“a dead beat”
Beat (noun)
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
Beat (noun)
The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
Beat (noun)
A smart tap on the adversary’s blade.
Beat (noun)
A beatnik.
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”
Beat (verb)
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
“He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.”
Beat (verb)
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Beat (verb)
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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.”
Beat (verb)
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
Beat (verb)
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
Beat (verb)
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
“Beat the eggs and whip the cream.”
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.”
Beat (verb)
To indicate by beating or drumming.
“to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters”
Beat (verb)
To tread, as a path.
Beat (verb)
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Beat (verb)
To be in agitation or doubt.
Beat (verb)
To make a sound when struck.
“The drums beat.”
Beat (verb)
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
“The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.”
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.
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.”
Beat (verb)
to masturbate.
“This was the second time he beat off today.”
Beat (adjective)
exhausted
“After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.”
Beat (adjective)
dilapidated, beat up
“Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.”
Beat (adjective)
fabulous
“Her makeup was beat!”
Beat (adjective)
boring
Beat (adjective)
ugly
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?”
Track (noun)
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
“The fox tracks were still visible in the snow.”
Track (noun)
The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
Track (noun)
A road or other similar beaten path.
“Follow the track for a hundred metres.”
Track (noun)
Physical course; way.
“Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.”
Track (noun)
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
“The athletes ran round the track.”
Track (noun)
The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
Track (noun)
The way or rails along which a train moves.
“They briefly closed the railway to remove debris found on the track.”
Track (noun)
A tract or area, such as of land.
Track (noun)
Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
Track (noun)
The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)
Track (noun)
Short for caterpillar track.
Track (noun)
The pitch.
Track (noun)
Sound stored on a record.
Track (noun)
The physical track on a record.
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”.”
Track (noun)
A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
Track (noun)
The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
“I’m going to try out for track next week.”
Track (noun)
A session talk on a conference.
Track (verb)
To continue observing over time.
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.”
Track (verb)
To monitor the movement of a person or object.
“Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.”
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.”
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.”
Track (verb)
To follow the tracks of.
“My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.”
Track (verb)
To move.
“The hurricane tracked further west than expected.”
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.”
Track (verb)
To create a musical recording (a track).
“Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.””
Track (verb)
To leave in the form of tracks.
“In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.”