beat

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A stroke; a blow.
2. A pulsation or throb.
3. 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. A rhythm.
5. A rhythm.
6. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
7. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
8. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
9. (broadly) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
10. (broadly) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
11. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
12. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
13. (Southern-US, dated, obsolete) A precinct.
14. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
15. (Australia, dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
16. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
17. The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
18. A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
19. (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

Verb

1. (transitive) To hit; to strike.
2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
6. (intransitive) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
9. (UK, transitive) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
10. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
11. To tread, as a path.
12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
13. To be in agitation or doubt.
14. To make a sound when struck.
15. (intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
16. 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.
17. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
18. (Multicultural-London-English, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
19. (slang, transitive) To rob; to cheat or scam.

Verb

1. simple past tense of beat
2. (colloquial, especially, form-of, participle, past) past participle of beat

Adj

1. (US, slang) Exhausted.
2. (slang) Dilapidated, beat up.
3. Having impressively attractive makeup.
4. (slang) Boring.
5. (slang) Ugly.

Adj

Relating to the Beat Generation.

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Llegeix-ne més

Conceptes

batre

copejar

picar

pegar

bategar

vèncer

superar

tustar

cadència

espetegar

brandar

castigar

agitar

esgotar

trucar

aletejar

remenar

repicar

ritme

sorprendre

percudir

guanyar

colpir

batec

xocar

martellejar

🔨

tamborinar

bategada

beatnik

apallisar

caure

compàs

dominar

encertar

endevinar

ensopegar

immolar

matar

🔪🩸👤

pols

pols arterial

temps

⌚

cobrar

cremar

derrotar

ronda

golpejar

palpitació

esclafar

amartellar

tamborinejar

Sinònims

strike

hit

defeat

pound

💷

thrash

knock

whip

throb

flog

overcome

pulse

lash

win

rhythm

thump

conquer

bang

hammer

🔨

pulsate

punch

👊

vanquish

batter

flap

attack

👊

slap

beat up

crush

smite

smash

kill

🔪🩸👤

blow

smack

scourge

palpitate

thresh

beat out

pulsation

stroke

clap

👏

tempo

drum

🥁

break

heartbeat

💓

belabour

trounce

punish

drub

swing

bash

tap

Traduccions

battre

schlagen

frapper

battere

bater

batir

golpear

vaincre

picchiare

klopfen

besiegen

vencer

pegar

slaan

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/biːt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb irlandès antic: fobotha

Cognat amb llatí: confutō

Cognat amb albanès: bahe

Cognat amb lituà: baudžiù

Cognat amb Classical Armenian: բութ

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bet

Heretat de anglès antic: bēot

In summary

From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch boten (“to push, strike”), Icelandic bauta (“to hit, strike”).
Compare also Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“to strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʻ)).

Frases

Yet each felt his heart beat a bit faster .