beat

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

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)  The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
 * 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) The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
 * 11)  The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
 * 12)  An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
 * 13)  That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
 * 14)  A precinct.
 * 15)  A place of habitual or frequent resort.
 * 16)  An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See.
 * 17)  A low cheat or swindler.
 * 18)  The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
 * 19)  A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
 * 20)  A makeup look; compare.
 * 1)  An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
 * 2)  That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
 * 3)  A precinct.
 * 4)  A place of habitual or frequent resort.
 * 5)  An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See.
 * 6)  A low cheat or swindler.
 * 7)  The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
 * 8)  A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
 * 9)  A makeup look; compare.
 * 1)  The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
 * 2)  A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
 * 3)  A makeup look; compare.
 * 1)  A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
 * 2)  A makeup look; compare.

Translations

 * Arabic: ضَرْبَة
 * Assamese: পিট, পিটন দে, কিল, মাৰ, মাৰ দে
 * Esperanto: bato
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κροῦμα
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠐ, ꠙꠤꠐꠘꠣ ꠖꠦ, ꠝꠣꠞ, ꠝꠣꠞ ꠖꠦ


 * Arabic: نَبْض
 * Azerbaijani: döyüntü
 * Catalan: batec
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, pulsación
 * Swedish:


 * Bengali: তাল
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Grundschlag
 * Icelandic: taktslag
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Spanish: pulsaciones (por minuto)
 * Swedish: taktslag
 * Welsh: curiad


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bengali: তাল
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: такт
 * Malay: rentak
 * Maori: taki, ūngeri
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ритм, такт


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Schwebung
 * Greek:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: vastuualue;
 * French:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Spanish:, ,


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 * Italian:

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)  To have sexual intercourse.
 * 19)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1)  To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
 * 2)  To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
 * 3) To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
 * 4)  To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
 * 5)  To indicate by beating or drumming.
 * 6) To tread, as a path.
 * 7) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
 * 8) To be in agitation or doubt.
 * 9) To make a sound when struck.
 * 10)  To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
 * 11) 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.
 * 12)  To arrive at a place before someone.
 * 13)  To have sexual intercourse.
 * 14)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1) To tread, as a path.
 * 2) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
 * 3) To be in agitation or doubt.
 * 4) To make a sound when struck.
 * 5)  To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7)  To arrive at a place before someone.
 * 8)  To have sexual intercourse.
 * 9)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  To arrive at a place before someone.
 * 3)  To have sexual intercourse.
 * 4)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1)  To have sexual intercourse.
 * 2)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1)  To rob; to cheat or scam.
 * 1)  To rob; to cheat or scam.

Translations

 * Albanian:, rraf, , ,
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: ضرب
 * Hijazi Arabic: ضرب, طرق, صقع, رقع
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: біць, пабі́ць; удара́ць, ўдара́ць, уда́рыць, ўда́рыць
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: да
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dalmatian: batar, báter
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Even: куси-
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: bati
 * Galician:, zoscar, zorregar, zoupar,
 * Gallurese: fusticà, addubbà
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τύπτω, πλήσσω
 * Hebrew: היכה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: schwaarte
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: löövvä, tappaa, iskiä, peeksää, issuttaa, napsuttaa, kleittää, kommia
 * Irish: buail, gread
 * Istro-Romanian: båte
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalenjin: piring'
 * Kalmyk: цокх
 * Kashmiri: لایُن, چوب دِنؠ
 * Kazakh: сою
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: hora
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: aharvar, ajarvar
 * Lao: ຕີ
 * Latin: pulso, cūdō, verbero, battuo
 * Latvian:
 * Lombard:
 * Luhya: khupa
 * Macedonian: бие
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: sawwat
 * Mansaka: bonal
 * Maore Comorian: urema
 * Maori: tukituki, tuangau
 * Middle English: beten
 * Nepali: ठोक्नु
 * Ngazidja Comorian: urema, ufufua
 * Norman: battre, dêfoncer
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: бити
 * Ottoman Turkish: چالمق
 * Papiamentu: bati
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ; ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: maqay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: surrare, sagamare
 * Logudorese: surrare, sagamare
 * Sassarese: sagamare, fusthigà, adubbà, iscudí
 * Scottish Gaelic: buail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: би̏ти
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: biť, tĺcť
 * Slovene: tolči, ,
 * Somali: tumid
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: biś
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ihampas
 * Tajik: задан‍
 * Tetum: baku, tuku
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎃𐎕
 * Ukrainian:, поби́ти, вдаря́ти, ударя́ти, вда́рити, уда́рити
 * Urdu: پیٹنا, مارنا
 * Venetian:, bàter
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:, leflapön
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: שלאָגן, קלאַפּן


 * Albanian:, rraf
 * Arabic: وَجَفَ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bengali: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: да
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: bati
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: pöllyttää
 * Irish: liúr, gread
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: цокх
 * Latin: tundō, plangō
 * Maori: patupatu, paopao
 * Middle English: beten
 * Neapolitan: vatte
 * Norman: latter
 * Ottoman Turkish: چالمق
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: buail
 * Slovene: tolči,
 * Spanish:, golpear (repetidamente)
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: daflapön


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Ottoman Turkish: چالمق


 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ;
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Maori: kapakapa, whētuki, kapakapatū, panapana
 * Middle English: beten
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:  (el corazón)
 * Tocharian B: särp-


 * Arabic: هَزَمَ, غَلَبَ
 * Hijazi Arabic: هَزَم, غلب
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: yenmək,, , məğlub etmək
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏠᏍᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 勝利する
 * Kashmiri: ہار دِنؠ, زینُن
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Maori: tārū
 * Middle English: beten
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: जित्नु, हराउनु, टप्नु
 * Norman: battre
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ;
 * Scottish Gaelic: buail
 * Slovene: premagati
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འཇོམས
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: جیتنا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: kovyeej
 * Zhuang:


 * Finnish:
 * French: remonter au vent
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: ngongo, kake, whakakake, tūmū
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Arabic: يخفق
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Korean:
 * Middle English: swyngen, swengen, beten
 * Norman: battre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: batiin, magbati


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: сбить (цену)


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Polish:
 * Telugu:


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 * Finnish: ;
 * Polish:
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 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:, päristää


 * Finnish: olla nopeampi kuin
 * French: ,


 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Latin: (1,2)
 * Norman: ,
 * Old English: (1,2)

Etymology 2
From, from. would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle. Pronunciations with (from, alternative simple past of ) are possibly analogous to , , , etc.

Adjective

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

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:fatigued
 * See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
 * See also Thesaurus:boring
 * See also Thesaurus:ugly

Translations

 * Dutch:


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 3
From, or.

Noun

 * 1)  A beatnik.

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to the Beat Generation.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) saint, beatified

Noun

 * 1) monk

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * A, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
 * 1)   an early rock genre.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  beat

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)  (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)

Noun

 * 1)  (rhythm accompanying music)

Etymology
From a contracted form of, from.

Adjective

 * 1) drunk

Etymology 1
From a contracted form (possibly ) of, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) meat

Noun

 * 1) happiness