beat in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   all in  beat  bushed  dead 
   

1. 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"
   perplex  vex  stick  get  puzzle  mystify  baffle  beat  pose  bewilder  flummox  stupefy  nonplus  gravel  amaze  dumbfound 
   
2. wear out completely
   "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
   exhaust  wash up  beat  tucker  tucker out 
   
3. 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  beat out  crush  shell  trounce  vanquish 
   
4. beat through cleverness and wit
   "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
   outwit  overreach  outsmart  outfox  beat  circumvent 
   
5. hit repeatedly
   "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
   beat 
   
6. 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  beat up  work over 
   
7. stir vigorously
   "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
   beat  scramble 
   
8. 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 
   
9. strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
   beat 
   
10. shape by beating
    "beat swords into ploughshares"
    beat 
    
11. make by pounding or trampling
    "beat a path through the forest"
    beat 
    
12. produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
    "beat the drum"
    beat 
    
13. move rhythmically
    "Her heart was beating fast"
    beat  pound  thump 
    
14. sail with much tacking or with difficulty
    "The boat beat in the strong wind"
    beat 
    
15. move with a flapping motion
    "The bird's wings were flapping"
    beat  flap 
    
16. indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
    "Beat the rhythm"
    beat 
    
17. move with a thrashing motion
    "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
    beat  flap 
    
18. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
    "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
    pulsate  beat  quiver 
    
19. make a rhythmic sound
    "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
    drum  beat  thrum 
    
20. make a sound like a clock or a timer
    "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
    tick  ticktock  ticktack  beat 
    
21. glare or strike with great intensity
    "The sun was beating down on us"
    beat 
    
22. avoid paying
    "beat the subway fare"
    beat  bunk 
    
23. be superior
    "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
    beat 
    

1. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
   beat 
   
2. a stroke or blow
   "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
   beat 
   
3. a regular rate of repetition
   "the cox raised the beat"
   beat 
   
4. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
   "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
   rhythm  beat  musical rhythm 
   
5. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
   meter  metre  measure  beat  cadence 
   
6. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
   "he could feel the beat of her heart"
   pulse  pulsation  heartbeat  beat 
   
7. the sound of stroke or blow
   "he heard the beat of a drum"
   beat 
   
8. 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  round 
   
9. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
   beatnik  beat 
   
10. 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
    beat