Meaning : A regular route for a sentry or policeman.

Example : In the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name.

Synonyms : round

Meaning : The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.

Example : He could feel the beat of her heart.

Synonyms : heartbeat, pulsation, pulse

Meaning : The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.

Example : The piece has a fast rhythm.
The conductor set the beat.

Synonyms : musical rhythm, rhythm

Meaning : 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.

Meaning : A member of the beat generation. A nonconformist in dress and behavior.

Synonyms : beatnik

Meaning : The sound of stroke or blow.

Example : He heard the beat of a drum.

Meaning : (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse.

Synonyms : cadence, measure, meter, metre

Meaning : A regular rate of repetition.

Example : The cox raised the beat.

Meaning : A stroke or blow.

Example : The signal was two beats on the steam pipe.

Meaning : The act of beating to windward. Sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing.

Meaning : Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.

Example : Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship.
We beat the competition.
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game.

Synonyms : beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

Meaning : Give a beating to. Subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.

Example : Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night.
The teacher used to beat the students.

Synonyms : beat up, work over

Meaning : Hit repeatedly.

Example : Beat on the door.
Beat the table with his shoe.

Meaning : Move rhythmically.

Example : Her heart was beating fast.

Synonyms : pound, thump

Meaning : Shape by beating.

Example : Beat swords into ploughshares.

Meaning : Make a rhythmic sound.

Example : Rain drummed against the windshield.
The drums beat all night.

Synonyms : drum, thrum

Meaning : Glare or strike with great intensity.

Example : The sun was beating down on us.

Meaning : Move with a thrashing motion.

Example : The bird flapped its wings.
The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky.

Synonyms : flap

Meaning : Sail with much tacking or with difficulty.

Example : The boat beat in the strong wind.

Meaning : Stir vigorously.

Example : Beat the egg whites.
Beat the cream.

Synonyms : scramble

Meaning : Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.

Example : Beat one's breast.
Beat one's foot rhythmically.

Meaning : Be superior.

Example : Reading beats watching television.
This sure beats work!.

Meaning : Avoid paying.

Example : Beat the subway fare.

Synonyms : bunk

Meaning : Make a sound like a clock or a timer.

Example : The clocks were ticking.
The grandfather clock beat midnight.

Synonyms : tick, ticktack, ticktock

Meaning : Move with a flapping motion.

Example : The bird's wings were flapping.

Synonyms : flap

Meaning : Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.

Example : Beat the rhythm.

Meaning : Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.

Example : The city pulsated with music and excitement.

Synonyms : pulsate, quiver

Meaning : Make by pounding or trampling.

Example : Beat a path through the forest.

Meaning : Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.

Example : Beat the drum.

Meaning : Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting.

Meaning : Beat through cleverness and wit.

Example : I beat the traffic.
She outfoxed her competitors.

Synonyms : circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach

Meaning : Be a mystery or bewildering to.

Example : This beats me!.
Got me--I don't know the answer!.
A vexing problem.
This question really stuck me.

Synonyms : amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex

Meaning : Wear out completely.

Example : This kind of work exhausts me.
I'm beat.
He was all washed up after the exam.

Synonyms : exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up

Meaning : Very tired.

Example : 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.

Synonyms : all in, bushed, dead