DICTOMETER

BEATS

(beat, beats, batido, toque, takt, slag, rytme, utmattet, utkjørt, slått ut)

1. Synonyms:
   • Beat generation
   • Beats
   • Beatniks
   Definitions:
   • a United States youth subculture of the 1950s
   • rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress
   • for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism
   • favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   • Round
   Definitions:
   • a regular route for a sentry or policeman
   Examples:
   • In the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Pulse
   • Pulsation
   • Heartbeat
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
   Examples:
   • He could feel the beat of her heart
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Rhythm
   • Beat
   • Musical rhythm
   Definitions:
   • the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
   Examples:
   • The piece has a fast rhythm
   • The conductor set the beat
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • 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
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Beatnik
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • a member of the beat generation
   • a nonconformist in dress and behavior
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • the sound of stroke or blow
   Examples:
   • He heard the beat of a drum
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Meter
   • Metre
   • Measure
   • Beat
   • Cadence
   Definitions:
   • (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • a regular rate of repetition
   Examples:
   • The cox raised the beat
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • a stroke or blow
   Examples:
   • The signal was two beats on the steam pipe
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • the act of beating to windward
    • sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   • Beat out
   • Crush
   • Shell
   • Trounce
   • Vanquish
   Definitions:
   • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
   Examples:
   • Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
   • We beat the competition
   • Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   • Beat up
   • Work over
   Definitions:
   • give a beating to
   • subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
   Examples:
   • Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
   • The teacher used to beat the students
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • hit repeatedly
   Examples:
   • Beat on the door
   • Beat the table with his shoe
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   • Pound
   • Thump
   Definitions:
   • move rhythmically
   Examples:
   • Her heart was beating fast
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • shape by beating
   Examples:
   • Beat swords into ploughshares
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   • Beat
   • Thrum
   Definitions:
   • make a rhythmic sound
   Examples:
   • Rain drummed against the windshield
   • The drums beat all night
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • glare or strike with great intensity
   Examples:
   • The sun was beating down on us
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   • Flap
   Definitions:
   • move with a thrashing motion
   Examples:
   • The bird flapped its wings
   • The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Beat
   Definitions:
   • sail with much tacking or with difficulty
   Examples:
   • The boat beat in the strong wind
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    • Scramble
    Definitions:
    • stir vigorously
    Examples:
    • Beat the egg whites
    • Beat the cream
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
    Examples:
    • Beat one's breast
    • Beat one's foot rhythmically
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • be superior
    Examples:
    • Reading beats watching television
    • This sure beats work!
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    • Bunk
    Definitions:
    • avoid paying
    Examples:
    • Beat the subway fare
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Tick
    • Ticktock
    • Ticktack
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • make a sound like a clock or a timer
    Examples:
    • The clocks were ticking
    • The grandfather clock beat midnight
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    • Flap
    Definitions:
    • move with a flapping motion
    Examples:
    • The bird's wings were flapping
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
    Examples:
    • Beat the rhythm
    
    
17. Synonyms:
    • Pulsate
    • Beat
    • Quiver
    Definitions:
    • move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
    Examples:
    • The city pulsated with music and excitement
    
    
18. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • make by pounding or trampling
    Examples:
    • Beat a path through the forest
    
    
19. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
    Examples:
    • Beat the drum
    
    
20. Synonyms:
    • Beat
    Definitions:
    • strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
    
    
21. Synonyms:
    • Outwit
    • Overreach
    • Outsmart
    • Outfox
    • Beat
    • Circumvent
    Definitions:
    • beat through cleverness and wit
    Examples:
    • I beat the traffic
    • She outfoxed her competitors
    
    
22. Synonyms:
    • Perplex
    • Vex
    • Stick
    • Get
    • Puzzle
    • Mystify
    • Baffle
    • Beat
    • Pose
    • Bewilder
    • Flummox
    • Stupefy
    • Nonplus
    • Gravel
    • Amaze
    • Dumbfound
    Definitions:
    • be a mystery or bewildering to
    Examples:
    • This beats me!
    • Got me
    
    
23. Synonyms:
    • Exhaust
    • Wash up
    • Beat
    • Tucker
    • Tucker out
    Definitions:
    • wear out completely
    Examples:
    • This kind of work exhausts me
    • I'm beat
    • He was all washed up after the exam