Beat

  • 111beat — 1. noun /biːt/ a) A pulsation or throb. b) 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. 2 …

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  • 112beat — 1. To strike; to throb or pulsate. 2. A stroke, impulse, or pulsation, as of the heart or pulse. 3. Activity of a cardiac chamber produced by catching a stimulus generated elsewhere in the …

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  • 113beat up — v. (slang) (AE) (d; intr.) to beat up on ( to beat ) (to beat up on smb.) * * * [ biːt ʌp] (slang) (AE) (d; intr.) to beat up on (to beat up on smb.; to beat ) …

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  • 114beat — I beat 1. beat sb., en (en musikgenre), i sms. beat , fx beatgruppe II beat 2. beat sb., et, s el. beat, ene (taktslag og rytme i jazz, rock m.m.) …

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  • 115.beat — Logo der Swatch Internetzeit Die Internetzeit (engl. internet time) ist ein alternatives Konzept der Zeitmessung. Da das Konzept von der Firma Swatch vermarktet wird, wird diese teilweise auch als Swatch Internetzeit oder Swatch Internet Time,… …

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  • 116beat — I adj Bad or in bad condition. That party was kind of beat, don t you think. 1990s II adj Tired, exhausted. After working all day I am really beat. 1940s III adj Turned off, exiled, underground. The Beat Generation and its beatniks withdrew from… …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 117beat up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms beat up : present tense I/you/we/they beat up he/she/it beats up present participle beating up past tense beat up past participle beaten up informal 1) to hurt someone by hitting or kicking them many times… …

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  • 118beat — 1) n a member of the beat generation or aspirer to its values. The term, coined by the influential American writer Jack Ker ouac and first published by John Clellon Holmes in his novel Go, is derived both from the notion of being beaten, down… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 119beat up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If someone beats a person up, they hit or kick the person many times. [V n P] Then they actually beat her up as well... [V P n (not pron)] The government supporters are beating up anyone they suspect of favouring the demonstrators …

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  • 120beat — i. A low frequency vibration produced when two sources of vibration act on the same object at the same time. For example, in a multiengine airplane, if two engines have slightly different RPM, airframe vibrations produced by these engines will… …

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