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Beat Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly. | | 2. | to dash against: rain beating the trees. | | 3. | to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings. | | 4. | to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo. | | 5. | to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well. | | 6. | to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares. | | 7. | to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him. | | 8. | to make (a path) by repeated treading. | | 9. | to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims v
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iciously before robbing them. | | 10. | Music. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome. | | 11. | Hunting. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game. | | 12. | to overcome in a contest; defeat. | | 13. | to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda. | | 14. | to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line. | | 15. | to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job. | | 16. | to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand. | | 17. | to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values. | | 18. | Slang. to swindle; cheat (often fol. by out): He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal. | | 19. | to escape or avoid (blame or punishment). | | 20. | Textiles. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed. | –verb (used without object) | 21. | to strike repeated blows; pound. | | 22. | to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster. | | 23. | to dash; strike (usually fol. by against or on): rain beating against the windows. | | 2
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4. | to resound under blows, as a drum. | | 25. | to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat? | | 26. | to play, as on a drum. | | 27. | to scour cover for game. | | 28. | Physics. to make a beat or beats. | | 29. | (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping: This cream won't beat. | | 30. | Nautical. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled. | –noun | 32. | the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums. | | 33. | a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute. | | 34. | the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement. | | 35. | one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat. | | 36. | Music. | a. | the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. | | b. | a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance. | | | 37. | Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone. | | 38. | Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry. | | 39. | Physics. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations. | | 40. | Journalism. | a. | the reporting of a piece of news in advance, esp. before it is reported by a rival or rivals. Compare exclusive (def. 13), scoop (def. 8). | | b. | Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering. | | | 41. | a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi. | | 42. | (often initial capital letter ) Informal. beatnik. | –adjective | 43. | Informal. exhausted; worn out. | | 44. | (often initial capital letter) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks. | —Verb phrases | 45. | beat about, | a. | to search through; scour: After beating about for several hours, he turned up the missing papers. | | b. | Nautical. to tack into the wind. | | | 46. | beat back, to force back; compel to withdraw: to beat back an attacker. | | 47. | beat down, | a. | to bring into subjection; subdue. | | b. | Informal. to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something: His first price was too high, so we tried to beat him down. | | | 48. | beat off, | a. | to ward off; repulse: We had to beat off clouds of mosquitoes. | | b. | Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate. | | | 49. | beat out, | a. | Informal. to defeat; win or be chosen over: to beat out the competition. | | b. | Carpentry. to cut (a mortise). | | c. | to produce hurriedly, esp. by writing or typing:
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There are three days left to beat out the first draft of the novel. | | d. | Baseball. (of a hitter) to make (an inf
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ield ground ball or bunt) into a hit: He beat out a weak grounder to third. | | | 50. | beat up, | a. | Also, beat up on. to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: A gang of toughs beat him up on the way home from school. In the third round the champion really began to beat up on the challenger. | | b. | British Informal. to find or gather; scare up: I'll beat up some lunch for us while you make out the shopping list. | | —Idioms | 51. | beat all, Informal. to surpass anything of a similar nature, esp. in an astonishing or outrageous way: The way he came in here and ordered us around beats all! | | 52. | beat a retreat. retreat (def. 12). | | 53. | beat around or about the bush. bush 1 (def. 17). | | 54. | beat it, Informal. to depart; go away: He was pestering me, so I told him to beat it. | | 55. | beat the air or wind, to make repeated futile attempts. | | 56. | beat the rap. rap 1 (def. 16). | | 57. | off one's beat, outside of one's routine, general knowledge, or range of experience: He protested that nonobjective art was off his beat. | | 58. | on the beat, in the correct rhythm or tempo: By the end of the number they were all finally playing on the beat. | |
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Street Definition–noun | 1. | a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks. | | 2. | such a thoroughfare together with adjacent buildings, lots, etc.: Houses, lawns, and trees composed a very pleasant street. | | 3. | the roadway of such a thoroughfare, as distinguished from the sidewalk: to cross a street. | | 4. | a main way or thoroughfare, as distinguished from a lane, alley, or the like. | | 5. | the inhabitants or frequenters of a street: The whole street gossiped about the new neighbors. | | 6. | the Street, Informal. | a. | the section of a city associated with a given profession or trade, esp. when concerned with business or finance, as Wall Street. | | b. | the principal theater and entertainment district of any of a number of U.S. cities. | | –adjective | 7. | of, on, or adjoining a street: a street door just off the sidewalk. | | 8. | taking place or appearing on the street: street fight; street musicians. | | 9. | coarse; crude; vulgar: street language. | | 10. | suitable for everyday wear: street clothes; street dress. | | 11. | retail: the street price of a new computer; the street value of a drug. | —Idioms | 12. | on or in the street, | a. | without a home: You'll be out on the street if the rent isn't paid. | | b. | without a job or occupation; idle. | | c. | out of prison or police custody; at liberty. | | | 13. | up one's street, British. alley 1 (def. 7). | |
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