meaning of beat
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3. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat ones breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
4. To punish by blows; to thrash.
5. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc. , for the purpose of rousing game.
6. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
7. To tread, as a path.
8. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc. ; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
9. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
10. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
11. To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
12. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
13. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
14. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
15. To be in agitation or doubt.
16. To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
17. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
18. To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
19. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
20. A stroke; a blow.
21. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
22. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
23. A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
24. A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i. , 8.
25. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchmans beat.
26. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
27. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
28. Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
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