beat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A stroke; a blow.

   “He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.”

2. isim A pulsation or throb.

   “a beat of the heart”

3. isim 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.
4. isim A rhythm.

   “I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!”

5. isim The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
6. isim The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
7. isim The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
8. isim A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
9. isim The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

   “to walk the beat”

10. isim The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

    “As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.”

11. isim An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

    “It's a beat on the whole country.”

12. isim That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

    “the beat of him”

13. isim A precinct.
14. isim A place of habitual or frequent resort.
15. isim An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
16. isim A low cheat or swindler.

    “a dead beat”

17. isim The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

    “Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.”

18. isim A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
19. isim A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

    “She made sure to give fans all the details about her beat in the caption.”

20. fiil To hit; to strike.

    “As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.”

21. fiil To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

    “He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.”

22. fiil To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

    “[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]”

23. fiil To move with pulsation or throbbing.

    “A thousand hearts beat happily.”

24. fiil To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

    “Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.”

25. fiil To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
26. fiil To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

    “The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.”

27. fiil To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

    “Beat the eggs and whip the cream.”

28. fiil To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

    “He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.”

29. fiil To indicate by beating or drumming.

    “to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters”

30. fiil To tread, as a path.

    “While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,”