To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
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 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.
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 (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.
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.
Ugly.
Having impressively attractive makeup.
Boring.
Exhausted.
Relating to the Beat Generation.
Dilapidated, beat up.
To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.
The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.
A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.
A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.