• Arabic:
• Dutch: verslaan
• German: schlagen
• Italian: battere
• Portuguese: bater
• Slovene: premagati
• Swedish: slå, besegra

• Swedish: slå

Adjective

1. (gay slang) fabulous

   Her makeup was beat!

2. exhausted

   After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

Synonyms

Translations

• ttbc Dutch: slaan, kloppen
• ttbc Esperanto: bato , bati v
• ttbc French: battre
• ttbc Indonesian: pukul, hantam, hajar, ketuk, ketok
• ttbc Latin: pello (1,2)
• ttbc Novial: frapa (1), frapada (2)
• ttbc Old English: hnossian (1,2)
• ttbc Spanish: (heart) latir

Derived terms

• backbeat, back beat
• beat about the bush
• beat down
• beat off
• beater
• beat generation
• beat senseless
• beat some sense into
• beat to the punch
• beat to quarters
• beat up
• deadbeat
• drumbeat
• heartbeat
• walk the beat
• wife-beater

Anagrams

• abet
• bate
• beta

References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

Romanian

Etymology

bibitus

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. drunk, intoxicated; tipsy

Declension

Antonyms

• treaz

Volapük

Noun

beat

1. happiness

Beat may refer to:

Physical beating

• To hit repeatedly. This is the original meaning. The subject of the verb may be a human or something inanimate, as in:-

"This is the fifth time this year so far that our rent collector has been beaten up and robbed."

"Storm waves beat against continuous jagged rocks and there was no hope of reaching a safe harbor."

• For physical beatings and similar as a crime, see battery (crime).

Other forms of defeating

Via the idea of winning/losing a fist or stick fight, came:-

• To defeat in a battle or fight.
• To defeat in a non-violent competitive sport or game.
  • And from that came:-
  • For one thing to be faster than another or to reach something first.
    • For example, in scuba diving "beating the lung" meant trying to breathe faster than the breathing set could supply air.

Music

• Beat (music), a pulse of sound that marks the metre or rhythm of a piece of music

• Beatmatching, the aligning of the tempos of the songs by DJs
• Beat music, a popular name in the 50's & 60's for what later became known as pop and rock, thus bands would be referred to as beat groups or beat combos
• Beat (band), a Finnish band.
• The Beat (band), a UK ska band of the early 1980s known in the US as The English Beat
• The Beat (US), also known as The Paul Collins Beat, an American power pop group from the late '70s
• Beat (King Crimson album), an album by progressive rock group King Crimson
• Beat (Kaela Kimura song), a single released by Kaela Kimura in 2005
• Beat (Chris Knox album), an album by New Zealand alternative musician Chris Knox
• Beat (TV-2 album), a 1983 album by the Danish band TV-2
• Beat magazine, Melbourne's biggest cab-audited street press.

Literature, Theatre & Film

• Beat (film), a 'bit' is also known (particularly in the US) as a beat, referring to the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play.
• Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay, usually taking the form of action-reaction.
• Meter (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of verse
• Beat generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
• In film and screenwriting, a beat refers to a pause in an actor's dialogue

Science

• Beat (acoustics), the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves

Areas of territory

A "beaten path" is a path made by the repeated treadings of feet. Thus:

• Beat, the territory and time that a police officer patrols
• A subject of coverage by a journalist, e.g., "Her beat is politics."
• Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
• Forest beat, a divisional subunit used for administering forests in India, see Forest range

Hunting

• A "beat", in Scotland, is related to the above meaning of "beaten path" and refers to a route taken by deer stalkers (as deep hunters are called in that region).
• "Beating for game" in hunting means to systematically attack vegetation to drive out of cover whatever animals or birds that the hunters are hunting.

Video Games

• Beats (video game), a video game for PlayStation Portable
• Beat, a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
• Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series of games
• Beat, a character from the Eternal Sonata RPG video game

Miscellaneous

• Beat (name), a common male given name in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
• .beat, the unit of the Swatch Internet Time
• Sailing upwind or beating, sailing a sailboat against the wind direction.
• Beat is a brand of cola produced in Mexico by Coca-Cola
• Honda Beat, an automobile produced by Honda Motor Co.
• Beat may be used as slang to refer to someone or something that is otherwise considered boring or uneventful, or to refer to someone or something as uncool, or bad. Common in the Philadelphia area.
• Beat may also be used as slang to refer to a marijuana smoking bowl that is ashed or is empty.

Etymology

• "Beat" is derived from Anglo-Saxon bēatan, likely with some influence from the verb French battre, Late Latin battuere = "to beat", of Germanic origin.
• The Swiss man's name "Beat" came from Latin beatus = "blessed".

See also

• Beating
• On the Beat

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