beating

<tabs><tab title="Noun"><ol><li>A stroke; a blow.</li><li>A pulsation or throb.</li><li>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.</li><li>A rhythm.</li><li>A rhythm.</li><li>The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.</li><li>The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency</li><li>A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.</li><li>An area of a person's responsibility, especially</li><li>An area of a person's responsibility, especially</li><li>An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.</li><li>(colloquial) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.</li><li>A precinct.</li><li>A place of habitual or frequent resort.</li><li>A place of habitual or frequent resort.</li><li>A low cheat or swindler.</li><li>The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.</li><li>A smart tap on the adversary's blade.</li><li>(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.</li></ol></tab><tab title="Verb"><ol><li>To hit; to strike.</li><li>To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.</li><li>To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.</li><li>To move with pulsation or throbbing.</li><li>To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.</li><li>To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.</li><li>To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.</li><li>To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.</li><li>To persuade the seller to reduce a price.</li><li>To indicate by beating or drumming.</li><li>To tread, as a path.</li><li>To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.</li><li>To be in agitation or doubt.</li><li>To make a sound when struck.</li><li>To make a succession of strokes on a drum.</li><li>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.</li><li>To arrive at a place before someone.</li><li>(slang) To have sexual intercourse.</li><li>(slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.</li></ol></tab><tab title="Verb"><ol><li>simple past tense of beat</li><li>(colloquial) past participle of beat</li></ol></tab><tab title="Adj"><ol><li>(slang) Exhausted.</li><li>(slang) Dilapidated, beat up.</li><li>Having impressively attractive makeup.</li><li>(slang) Boring.</li><li>(slang) Ugly.</li></ol></tab><tab title="Adj">Relating to the Beat Generation.</tab></tabs>

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