beat

1. imp. of Beat Source: opted

2. p. p. of Beat Source: opted

3. v. t. 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. Source: opted

4. v. t. To punish by blows; to thrash. Source: opted

5. v. t. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. Source: opted

6. v. t. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. Source: opted

7. v. t. To tread, as a path. Source: opted

8. v. t. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. Source: opted

9. v. t. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. Source: opted

10. v. t. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Source: opted

11. v. t. 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. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. Source: opted

12. v. i. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. Source: opted

13. v. i. To move with pulsation or throbbing. Source: opted

14. v. i. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Source: opted

15. v. i. To be in agitation or doubt. Source: opted

16. v. i. To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. Source: opted

17. v. i. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. Source: opted

18. v. i. To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. Source: opted

19. v. i. 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. Source: opted

20. n. A stroke; a blow. Source: opted

21. n. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. Source: opted

22. n. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. Source: opted

23. n. A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. Source: opted

24. n. A sudden swelling or reenforcement 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. See Beat, v. i., 8. Source: opted

25. v. i. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. Source: opted

26. v. i. A place of habitual or frequent resort. Source: opted

27. v. i. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. Source: opted

28. a. Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. Source: opted

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