To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
simple past tense of beat
To rob.
To indicate by beating or drumming.
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
To make a sound when struck.
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
To hit; to strike.
To tread, as a path.
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
To have sexual intercourse.
To arrive at a place before someone.
To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
To be in agitation or doubt.
Ugly.
Having impressively attractive makeup.
Boring.
Exhausted.
Relating to the Beat Generation.
Dilapidated, beat up.
A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
A beatnik.
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.
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
A rhythm.
The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
A pulsation or throb.
A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
A stroke; a blow.
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
A precinct.
To produce percussive sounds of this kind.
A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left’