A pulsation or throb.
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 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.
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.
Ugly.
Having impressively attractive makeup.
Boring.
Exhausted.
Relating to the Beat Generation.
Dilapidated, beat up.
Purpura.
Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
A cardinalate.
A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
Blood-red; bloody.
To clothe in purple.
To dye purple.
To turn purple in colour.