beat vs conquest

beat

noun
  • A smart tap on the adversary's blade. 

  • 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. 

  • The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency 

  • A precinct. 

verb
  • 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 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. 

adj
  • Ugly. 

  • Having impressively attractive makeup. 

  • Boring. 

  • Exhausted. 

  • Relating to the Beat Generation. 

  • Dilapidated, beat up. 

conquest

noun
  • Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. 

  • That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. 

  • An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle. 

  • A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags. 

  • A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections. 

verb
  • To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor. 

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