(Homonym: beet).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: beat, beaten).
1. To be superior.
2. To come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; SYN. beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish.
3. To give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; SYN. beat up.
4. To glare or strike with great intensity.
5. To hit repeatedly.
6. To indicate by beating; as with the fingers or drumsticks.
7. To make by pounding or trampling.
8. To move rhythmically; SYN. pound, thump.
9. To move with a flapping motion; SYN. flap.
10. To move with a thrashing motion; SYN. flap.
11. To produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.
12. To sail with much tacking or with difficulty.
13. To shape by beating.
14. To stir vigorously; SYN. scramble.
15. To strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.
(Homonym: beet).
1. A regular rate of repetition.
2. A regular route for a sentry or policeman; SYN. circuit, round.
3. A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations.
4. A stroke or blow.
5. The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing.
6. The sound of stroke or blow.
1. In der Tierzucht eine aus einer Zuchtherde hervorgegangene, sich durch bes. Merkmale von den übrigen Tieren unterscheidende Gruppe einer Rasse.
2. In der Forstwirtschaft Ort einer flächenweisen Holznutzung (z.B. Kahlschlag).
3. Kräftiges, strophenweise vorgetragenes Lied mancher Singvögel (z.B. Nachtigallen-S., Finken-S.).
In regelmäßigen Abständen wiederkehrender Impuls.
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
In music, a pulsation giving the tempo, for example a conductor’s beat, or a unit of tempo, as in four beats to the bar. “Beat music” is a general term for popular music having a strong and unvarying beat.