Beat (Noun)
Meaning 1
The sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 2
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
A stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 4
The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 5
A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior.
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 6
The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 7
A regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 8
The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 9
A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations.
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Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
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Meaning 10
A regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.