beat

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

beats

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

beat

past (v2)

beat

past participle (v3)

beaten

present participle

beating

3rd person singular

beats

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A stroke; a blow.

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

2. 2.A pulsation or throb.

   • With each beat, your heart's left ventricle pumps blood into your arteries, which are all different sizes.

3. 3.A rhythm.

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

4. 4.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.

   • He marches to the beat of a different drummer.
   • Children like to beat drums.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.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.

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

   • He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

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

   • Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below.
   • The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.
   • This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves.

4. 4.To move with pulsation or throbbing.

   • A thousand hearts beat happily.

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