beat

Anlam

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. An area of a person's responsibility, especially
10. An area of a person's responsibility, especially
11. An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
12. (colloquial) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
13. A precinct.
14. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
15. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
16. 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. To hit; to strike.
2. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
3. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
6. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. 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. To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
10. 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. 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. To arrive at a place before someone.
18. (slang) To have sexual intercourse.
19. (slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.

Verb

1. simple past tense of beat
2. (colloquial) past participle of beat

Adj

1. (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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Etimoloji

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”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“I strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʻ)).