How to pronounce “beat”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A stroke; a blow.
• 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.
• 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.
• (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
• (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• (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.
• (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.
• (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To hit; to strike.
• (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 (someone); to excel 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, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• (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 lesser 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, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
• (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.

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