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beat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bi?t/
- Homophone: beet
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English beten, from Old English b?atan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd- (“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confut? (“I strike down”), f?stis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian ???? (but?)).
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A stroke; a blow.
- He, […] with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (music) 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.
- A rhythm.
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
- (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
- As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24
- It's a beat on the whole country.
- 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24
- (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
- (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
- (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
- Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.
- 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Pennsylvania German: biede
Translations
See also
- (piece of hip-hop music): track
Verb
beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or beat)
- (transitive) To hit; strike
- Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than; to excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- Synonym: negotiate
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- 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.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
- (US slang) exhausted
- dilapidated, beat up
- (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup
- (slang) boring
- (slang, of a person) ugly
Synonyms
- (exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
- (boring): See also Thesaurus:boring
- (ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly
Translations
Etymology 2
From beatnik
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A beatnik.
- 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
- The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.
- 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
Derived terms
- beat generation
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN.
Anagrams
- Bate, Beta, Teba, abet, bate, beta
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin be?tus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /be?at/
- Rhymes: -at
Adjective
beat (feminine beata, masculine plural beats, feminine plural beates)
- saint, beatified
Derived terms
- beateria
Noun
beat m (plural beats)
- monk
Related terms
- beatífic
Further reading
- “beat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “beat” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “beat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “beat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
- Hyphenation: beat
- Rhymes: -it
- Homophones: bied, biedt, biet
Noun
beat m (plural beats, diminutive beatje n)
- A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
- (music) beat an early rock genre.
Derived terms
- beatmis
- beatmuziek
Anagrams
- bate
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi?t/, [?bi?t?]
Noun
beat
- (music) beat
Declension
Synonyms
- biitti
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Adjective
beat (invariable)
- beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)
Noun
beat m (invariable)
- beat (rhythm accompanying music)
Anagrams
- beta
Latin
Verb
beat
- third-person singular present active indicative of be?
Romanian
Etymology
From Late Latin bibitus (“drunk”), from Latin bib? (“drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [be?at]
Adjective
beat m or n (feminine singular beat?, masculine plural be?i, feminine and neuter plural bete)
- drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy
Declension
Synonyms
- îmb?tat
- b?ut
Antonyms
- treaz
Derived terms
- be?ie
Related terms
- bea
- be?iv
- îmb?ta
Volapük
Noun
beat (nominative plural beats)
- happiness
Declension
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inundate
English
Etymology
From Latin inund? (“I flood, overflow”), from und? (“I overflow, I wave”), from unda (“wave”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /??n.?n.de?t/
- (UK, also) IPA(key): /??n.?n.de?t/
Verb
inundate (third-person singular simple present inundates, present participle inundating, simple past and past participle inundated)
- To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
- To overwhelm.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
Synonyms
- (to cover with water): deluge, flood, beflood
- (to overwhelm): deluge, flood, beflood
Related terms
- inundation
- undulate
Translations
Anagrams
- antidune
Esperanto
Adverb
inundate
- present adverbial passive participle of inundi
Latin
Verb
inund?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of inund?
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