beat (
http://definr.com/beat)
adj : (informal) 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" [syn:
all in(p),
beat(p),
bushed(p),
dead(p)]
n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days
a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by
name" [syn:
round]
2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with
each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her
heart" [syn:
pulse,
pulsation,
heartbeat]
3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has
a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn:
rhythm,
musical rhythm]
4: 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
5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress
and behavior [syn:
beatnik]
6: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn:
meter,
measure,
cadence]
8: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
9: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam
pipe"
10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible
to the direction from which the wind is blowing
v 1: 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" [syn:
beat out,
crush,
trounce,
vanquish]
2: 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" [syn:
beat up]
3: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his
shoe"
4: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn:
pound,
thump]
5: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
6: make a rhythmic sound: "Rain drummed against the
windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn:
drum,
thrum]
7: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating
down on us"
8: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings";
"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
[syn:
flap]
9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in
the strong wind"
10: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; beat the cream"
[syn:
scramble]
11: 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"
12: be superior: "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure
beats work!"
13: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat
me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were
cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled
me out of my money" [syn:
cheat,
rip off,
chisel]
14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were
ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn:
tick,
ticktock,
ticktack]
15: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were
flapping" [syn:
flap]
16: indicate by beating; as with the fingers or drumsticks;
"Beat the rhythm"
17: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the
forest"
18: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly: "beat the drum"
19: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for
hunting
20: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She
outfoxed her competitors" [syn:
outwit,
overreach,
outsmart,
outfox,
circumvent]
21: be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I
don't know the answer!" [syn:
perplex,
get,
puzzle,
mystify,
baffle,
bewilder,
flummox,
stupefy,
stupify,
nonplus,
gravel,
amaze,
dumbfound]
22: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm
beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn:
exhaust,
wash up,
tucker,
tucker out]