be beat

Определение be beat в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
beat: In haggling for a price: of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
beat: The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
beat: Past participle of beat
Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall.
beat: To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind
beat: To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike
As soon as she heard the news, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
beat: The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music
beat: In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.)
beat: A rhythm
beat: (impersonal): It beats X Y = X cannot understand Y, where Y is an indirect question
said by Fred Dibnah): It beats me how she keeps tabs on everybody.
beat: A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a character's face (often used in screenplays/teleplays)
beat: To indicate by beating or drumming
to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters.
beat: A beatnik
beat: To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
beat: To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
beat: The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense
beat: {v} to strike, throb, outdo, conquer, rouse, thrash, pound, measure time in singing, sail in a zigzag form
beat: {n} the sound of a drum, a stroke, a motion
beat: A beat or beat cop is a police officer who walks, rides, cycles, or drives in a specific neighborhood, known as a “beat.” Because the officer routinely patrols in the same area, he or she becomes well-known in the community, creating a positive relationship between law enforcement and the community
beat: To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble
beat: See Beat, v
beat: Unit of measurement of rhythmic pulse of music
beat: To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum
beat: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
beat: A regular subdivision of time that forms the basis for the pulse
beat: A heavy stress or accent in a line of poetry The number of beats or stresses in a line usually determines the meter of the line See meter
beat: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
beat: A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament
beat: If you beat someone in a competition or election, you defeat them. In yesterday's games, Switzerland beat the United States two-one She was easily beaten into third place
beat: In music, a beat is a unit of measurement. The number of beats in a bar of a piece of music is indicated by two numbers at the beginning of the piece. It's got four beats to a bar. see also upbeat, downbeat
beat: An attempt to knock the opponent's blade aside or out of line by using one's foible or middle against the opponent's foible
beat: In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporters stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business, etc.)
beat: To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly
beat: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
beat: A pulsation or throb
beat: To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat
beat: Sharp contact with the opponent's blade to initiate or threaten attack
beat: If you beat a drum or similar instrument, you hit it in order to make a sound. You can also say that a drum beats. When you beat the drum, you feel good. drums beating and pipes playing. Beat is also a noun. the rhythmical beat of the drum
beat: To move with pulsation or throbbing
beat: To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse
beat: A reporter's topic area Courts, religion, education and Macomb County are all beats Think of reporters covering their areas as a cop might walk a beat
beat: to vanquish or conquer; to surpass
beat: A throbbing or undulating effect taking place in rapid succession when two notes not quite of the same pitch are sounded together If two tones are one cycle per second apart in pitch there will be one beat per second
beat: A preparation To strike the opponent's blade
beat: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
beat: 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
beat: To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do
beat: To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; often with out
beat: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
beat: for the purpose of rousing game
beat: To be in agitation or doubt
beat: The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat
beat: metrical or rhythmic stress, groupings of which constitute the meter or "time" of music
beat: When a bird or insect beats its wings or when its wings beat, its wings move up and down. Beating their wings they flew off Its wings beat slowly
beat: To stir or mix rapidly with a spoon, whisk, or an electric mixer, adding air to make a mixture smooth, lighter, or fluffier
beat: A small part of a dramatic play
beat: To stir rapidly in a circular motion Generally, 100 strokes by hand equals about 1 minute by electric mixer
beat: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
beat: A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat
beat: When your heart or pulse beats, it continually makes regular rhythmic movements. I felt my heart beating faster. Beat is also a noun. He could hear the beat of his heart Most people's pulse rate is more than 70 beats per minute. + beating beat·ing I could hear the beating of my heart
beat: fabulous
beat: The regular pulse of the music
beat: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
beat: A unit of action in a scene A scene is made up of a series of beats
beat: To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc
beat: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
beat: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
beat: A sub division of time usually felt as the pulse within a piece of music
beat: 1 A footfall within a gait A hoof, or pair of hooves virtually simultanosly striking the ground By this definition the walk has four beats, the trot has two, and the canter three 2 The emphasized beat (as in music) By this definition the walk has two beats, the trot has two and the canter has one beat
beat: See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc
beat: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
beat: The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked
beat: 1) The steady even pulse in music 2) The action of two sounds or audio signals mixing together and causing regular rises & falls in volume
beat: A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible. The officer on the beat picks up information; hears cries for help; makes people feel safe
beat: {f} hit, strike; hammer metal; defeat, finish before, do better than (in a contest, or race); stir rapidly (eggs, etc.)
beat: The interference effect resulting from the superposition of two waves of slightly different frequencies propagating in the same direction The amplitude of the resultant wave varies with time
beat: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
beat: A police officer's or journalist's beat is the area for which he or she is responsible
beat: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
beat: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
beat: To beat a time limit or an event means to achieve something before that time or event. They were trying to beat the midnight deadline
beat: The beat of a piece of music is the main rhythm that it has. the thumping beat of rock music
beat: If you beat something that you are fighting against, for example an organization, a problem, or a disease, you defeat it. It became clear that the Union was not going to beat the government = conquer
beat: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
beat: If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do. Don't be too long about it or you'll find someone has beaten you to it
beat: {i} strike; rhythm; tapping; pulse; usual territory, regular jurisdiction; "scoop", news story that is published earlier than in the rival newspapers (Journalism)
beat: 1 One complete cycle of the variations in the amplitude of two or more periodic phenomena of different frequency which mutually react See beat frequency 2 To produce beating
beat: A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
beat: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
beat: If you beat eggs, cream, or butter, you mix them thoroughly using a fork or beater. Beat the eggs and sugar until they start to thicken
beat: A place of habitual or frequent resort
beat: To win against; to defeat; to do better than, outdo, or excel someone in a particular, competitive event
beat: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
beat: A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat
beat: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
beat: To tread, as a path
beat: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
beat: If you say that one thing beats another, you mean that it is better than it. Being boss of a software firm beats selling insurance
beat: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
beat: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
beat: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
beat: A sudden swelling or reënforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison
beat: If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. My wife tried to stop them and they beat her They were beaten to death with baseball bats
beat: exhausted
beat: 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 come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
beat: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
beat: In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit
beat: One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him
beat: To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo
beat: To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison
beat: You use beat in expressions such as `It beats me' or `What beats me is' to indicate that you cannot understand or explain something. `What am I doing wrong, anyway?' --- `Beats me, Lewis.' see also beaten, beaten-up, beating, beat-up
beat: If someone beats a record or achievement, they do better than it. He was as eager as his Captain to beat the record
beat: If you say you can't beat a particular thing you mean that it is the best thing of its kind. You can't beat soap and water for cleansing
beat: To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc
beat: when a player gets past an opponent trying to block or tackle him
beat: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
beat: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
beat: To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm
beat: to beat someone black and blue: see black to beat about the bush: see bush to beat or knock the living daylights out of someone: see daylights to beat the drum for someone or something: see drum to beat someone at their own game: see game to beat a retreat: see retreat to beat, kick or knock the shit out of someone: see shit. v. In physics, the pulsation resulting from a combination of two waves of slightly different frequency. Beat frequency is the difference between the frequencies of the combining waves. When the interfering frequencies are in the audible range, the beats are heard as alternating soft and loud pulses. The human ear can detect beats with frequencies up to 10 hertz, or 10 beats per second. Piano tuners listen for beats when comparing the pitch of a tuning fork to that of a vibrating string; when no beats are heard, the fork and string are at the same frequency. Ultrasonic or inaudible frequencies can be superimposed to produce audible beats, allowing the detection of vocal sounds produced by bats or dolphins
beat: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
beat: To beat on, at, or against something means to hit it hard, usually several times or continuously for a period of time. There was dead silence but for a fly beating against the glass Nina managed to free herself and began beating at the flames with a pillow The rain was beating on the windowpanes. = pound Beat is also a noun. the rhythmic beat of the surf. + beating beat·ing the silence broken only by the beating of the rain
beat: The unit for measuring time and meter in music
beat: avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
beat: To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters
beat: the regular pulse of music
beat: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
beat: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!
beat: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
beat: To mix food in a rapid fashion. cf. whip
beat: The regular recurring, periodic, pulse or throb that constitutes the unit of time measurement in music
beat: Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted
beat: A smart tap on the adversary's blade
beat: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
beat: To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind
beat: To sail towards the direction from which the wind blows by making a series of tacks while sailing close-hauled
beat: strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
beat: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
beat: To stir rapidly in a circular motion Generally, 100 strokes by hand equals about 1 minute by electric mixer Blend-To combine two or more ingredients together with a spoon, beater or blender
beat: A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays)
beat: The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively
beat: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
beat: If you beat time to a piece of music, you move your hand or foot up and down in time with the music. A conductor beats time to show the choir or orchestra how fast they should sing or play the music. He beats time with hands and feet. = keep time
beat: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
beat: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
beat: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
beat: A stroke; a blow
beat: To punish by blows; to thrash
beat: {s} tired, exhausted (Slang); of a beatnik; sloppily dressed
beat: If an attack or an attempt is beaten off or is beaten back, it is stopped, often temporarily. The rescuers were beaten back by strong winds and currents South Africa's ruling National Party has beaten off a right-wing challenge
beat: The act of one that beats a person or thing The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop