Meaning of the word beats

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”).

Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“I strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʿ)).

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/
• Homophone: beet
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun[edit]

beat (plural beats)

1. A stroke; a blow.
2. A pulsation or throb.

   a beat of the heart

   the beat of the pulse

3. (music) 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.
4. A rhythm.

   I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

   1. (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
5. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
6. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
7. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
8. (by extension) An area of a person’s responsibility, especially
   1. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

      • 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in A Study in Scarlet:

        There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.

      • 2019 January 29, Mike Masnick, “How My High School Destroyed An Immigrant Kid’s Life Because He Drew The School’s Mascot”, in Techdirt‎^[1]:

        […] the rise of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat” is a school. Those officers report to the local police department and not the school, and can, and frequently do, have different priorities.

   2. (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter’s stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
      • 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic

        As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.

9. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
   • 1898, unknown author, Scribner’s Magazine Volume 24

     It’s a beat on the whole country.

10. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

    the beat of him

11. (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
12. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
    1. (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
13. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

    a dead beat

    • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

      “If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.

14. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
    • 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport

      Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.

15. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary’s blade.
16. (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one’s face.

    • 2018, Leah Prinzivalli, “Kylie Jenner Shared a Sneak Peek of Her New Kylie Cosmetics Blush on Instagram”, in Allure‎^[3]:

      She made sure to give fans all the details about her beat in the caption.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• → Pennsylvania German: biede

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• (piece of hip-hop music): track

Verb[edit]

beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or (especially colloquial) beat)

1. (transitive) To hit; to strike.

   As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

   Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit

   • 1825?, “Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder”, in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters, page 231:

     Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall […]

   • 1988, Honig, Emily; Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s‎^[4], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219:

     The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.

   • 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.

   • 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, Guadalcanal Campaign — The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎^[6], archived from the original on 17 October 2022, 5:50 from the start:

     The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.

2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

   He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
   • 1625, Bacon, Francis, “Of Envy”, in Essayes:

     This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves.

   • 1662 January 1, Dryden, John, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde, line 144:

     Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below.

   • 1850, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “Twilight”, in The Seaside and the Fireside:

     What tale do the roaring ocean, / And the nightwind, bleak and wild, / As they beat at the crazy casement, / Tell to that little child?

4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

   Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.

   No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.

   I just can’t seem to beat the last level of this video game.
6. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

   • 1955, Jenkins, Robin, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 81:

     The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.

8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

   Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

9. (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

   He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

   Synonym: negotiate

10. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

    to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

11. To tread, as a path.

    • 1712, Blackmore, Sir Richard, Creation: A Philosophical Poem, book 1:

      While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,

12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

    • 1693, Locke, John, Some Thoughts Concerning Education:

      I know not why any one should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be a critick, or make speeches, and write dispatches in it.

13. To be in agitation or doubt.

    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

      to still my beating mind

14. To make a sound when struck.

    The drums beat.

15. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

    The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

16. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
17. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

    He beat me there.

    The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.

18. (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.

    Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

    Synonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate

19. (transitive, slang) To rob.

    • 1900, Fame, quoting Retail Trade Advocate, page 472:

      When one of ’em runs up a bill here, then goes off and deals somewhere else, and dodges me every time he sees me, that’s the man I’m after with a sharp stick. […] Honest people often get into tight places, and we would rather help ’em than hurt ’em then. But some just try to beat you.

    He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English bet (simple past of beten «to beat»), from Old English bēot (simple past of bēatan «to beat»). Middle English bet would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle beaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read (/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: bēt, bĕt, IPA^(key): /biːt/, (often proscribed) /bɛt/
• Rhymes: -iːt, -ɛt
• Homophones: beet, bet

Verb[edit]

beat

1. simple past tense of beat
2. (especially colloquial) past participle of beat

Adjective[edit]

beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)

2. (US slang) Exhausted.

   After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 10, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:

     I stayed in San Francisco a week and had the beatest time of my life. Marylou and I walked around for miles, looking for food-money.

3. Dilapidated, beat up.

   Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.

4. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.

   Her face was beat for the gods!

5. (slang) Boring.
6. (slang, of a person) Ugly.

Synonyms[edit]

• (exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
• (dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
• (boring): See also Thesaurus:boring
• (ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly

Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From beatnik, or beat generation.

Alternative forms[edit]

• Beat

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/
• Homophone: beet
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun[edit]

beat (plural beats)

2. A beatnik.
   • 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008

     The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.

Adjective[edit]

beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)

1. Relating to the Beat Generation.

   beat poetry

References[edit]

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

Anagrams[edit]

• Bate, Beta, Teba, abet, bate, beta

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin beātus.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /beˈat/
• Rhymes: -at

Adjective[edit]

beat (feminine beata, masculine plural beats, feminine plural beates)

1. saint, beatified

Derived terms[edit]

• beateria

Noun[edit]

beat m (plural beats)

1. monk

[edit]

• beatífic

Further reading[edit]

• “beat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “beat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “beat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “beat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English beat.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bit/
• Hyphenation: beat
• Rhymes: -it
• Homophones: bied, biedt, biet

Noun[edit]

beat m (plural beats, diminutive beatje n)

1. A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
2. (music) beat an early rock genre.

Derived terms[edit]

• beatmis
• beatmuziek

Anagrams[edit]

• bate

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English beat.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːt/, [ˈbiːt̪]

Noun[edit]

beat

1. (music) beat

Declension[edit]

Inflection of beat (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative	beat	beatit
genitive	beatin	beatien
partitive	beatiä	beatejä
illative	beatiin	beateihin
	singular	plural
nominative	beat	beatit
accusative	nom.	beat	beatit
gen.	beatin
genitive	beatin	beatien
partitive	beatiä	beatejä
inessive	beatissä	beateissä
elative	beatistä	beateistä
illative	beatiin	beateihin
adessive	beatillä	beateillä
ablative	beatiltä	beateiltä
allative	beatille	beateille
essive	beatinä	beateinä
translative	beatiksi	beateiksi
instructive	—	beatein
abessive	beatittä	beateittä
comitative	See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of beat (type risti)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative beatini beatini accusative nom. beatini beatini gen. beatini genitive beatini beatieni partitive beatiäni beatejäni inessive beatissäni beateissäni elative beatistäni beateistäni illative beatiini beateihini adessive beatilläni beateilläni ablative beatiltäni beateiltäni allative beatilleni beateilleni essive beatinäni beateinäni translative beatikseni beateikseni instructive — — abessive beatittäni beateittäni comitative — beateineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative beatisi beatisi accusative nom. beatisi beatisi gen. beatisi genitive beatisi beatiesi partitive beatiäsi beatejäsi inessive beatissäsi beateissäsi elative beatistäsi beateistäsi illative beatiisi beateihisi adessive beatilläsi beateilläsi ablative beatiltäsi beateiltäsi allative beatillesi beateillesi essive beatinäsi beateinäsi translative beatiksesi beateiksesi instructive — — abessive beatittäsi beateittäsi comitative — beateinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative beatimme beatimme accusative nom. beatimme beatimme gen. beatimme genitive beatimme beatiemme partitive beatiämme beatejämme inessive beatissämme beateissämme elative beatistämme beateistämme illative beatiimme beateihimme adessive beatillämme beateillämme ablative beatiltämme beateiltämme allative beatillemme beateillemme essive beatinämme beateinämme translative beatiksemme beateiksemme instructive — — abessive beatittämme beateittämme comitative — beateinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative beatinne beatinne accusative nom. beatinne beatinne gen. beatinne genitive beatinne beatienne partitive beatiänne beatejänne inessive beatissänne beateissänne elative beatistänne beateistänne illative beatiinne beateihinne adessive beatillänne beateillänne ablative beatiltänne beateiltänne allative beatillenne beateillenne essive beatinänne beateinänne translative beatiksenne beateiksenne instructive — — abessive beatittänne beateittänne comitative — beateinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative beatinsä beatinsä accusative nom. beatinsä beatinsä gen. beatinsä genitive beatinsä beatiensä partitive beatiään beatiänsä beatejään beatejänsä inessive beatissään beatissänsä beateissään beateissänsä elative beatistään beatistänsä beateistään beateistänsä illative beatiinsä beateihinsä adessive beatillään beatillänsä beateillään beateillänsä ablative beatiltään beatiltänsä beateiltään beateiltänsä allative beatilleen beatillensä beateilleen beateillensä essive beatinään beatinänsä beateinään beateinänsä translative beatikseen beatiksensä beateikseen beateiksensä instructive — — abessive beatittään beatittänsä beateittään beateittänsä comitative — beateineen beateinensä

Synonyms[edit]

• biitti

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English beat.

Adjective[edit]

beat (invariable)

1. beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)

Noun[edit]

beat m (invariable)

1. beat (rhythm accompanying music)

Anagrams[edit]

• beta, tabe

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

beat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of beō

Megleno-Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a contracted Vulgar Latin form of Late Latin bibitus (“drunk”), from Latin bibō (“drink”).

Adjective[edit]

beat

1. drunk

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a contracted Vulgar Latin form of Late Latin bibitus (“drunk”), from Latin bibō (“drink”). Compare Spanish beodo.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [be̯at]

Adjective[edit]

beat m or n (feminine singular beată, masculine plural beți, feminine and neuter plural bete)

1. drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy

Declension[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

• îmbătat
• băut
• (very formal) în stare de ebrietate
• (slang) matol
• (slang) matolit
• (slang) pilit
• (slang) mangă
• (slang) țeapăn
• (slang) cherchelit

Antonyms[edit]

• treaz

Derived terms[edit]

• beție

[edit]

• bea
• bețiv
• îmbăta

Rukai[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• beate

Noun[edit]

beat

1. meat

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

beat (nominative plural beats)

1. happiness

Declension[edit]

бить, биться, отбивать, удар, ритм, биение, бой, такт, усталый, измотавшийся

глагол ↓

существительное ↓

прилагательное ↓

Словосочетания

a man accused of beating his wife — мужчина, которого обвиняют в избиении жены  
a heart rate of 80 beats a minute — пульс восемьдесят ударов в минуту  
the steady beat of the drum — мерный ритм барабана  
beat a path through the forest — протоптать в лесу дорожку  
beat the living hell out of him — выбить к чёрту дух из него  
to beat a carpet — выбивать, выколачивать ковёр  
to beat the chest — бить себя кулаком в грудь  
to beat / bang the drum — бить в барабан  
to beat the gong — курить опиум  
to beat / flog a dead horse — обсуждать уже решённый вопрос  
to beat smb. to smithereens — разбить кого-л. наголову  
to beat eggs — амер. взбивать яйца  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Фразовые глаголы

beat about — метаться, изменять направление, беспокойно искать, разыскивать
beat back — отбивать, отражать
beat down — сбивать, сломить
beat in — проломить, раздавить
beat off — отбивать, отражать, отгонять, заниматься мастурбацией
beat out — выбивать, ковать, сбивать с толку
beat up — взбить, избивать, взбивать, вербовать, зверски избивать, отколотить

Возможные однокоренные слова

beaten  — избитый, битый, разбитый, побежденный, чеканный, проторенный, измученный, утомленный
beater  — колотушка, било, битер, загонщик, трепало, выбивалка, пестик, цеп, пест, сбивалка
beatify  — канонизировать, благословлять, делать счастливым, давать блаженство
beating  — битье, биение, поражение, порка, выволочка, массаж, взмахивание

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: beat
he/she/it: beats
ing ф. (present participle): beating
2-я ф. (past tense): beat
3-я ф. (past participle): beaten

noun
ед. ч.(singular): beat
мн. ч.(plural): beats

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beat [bi:t]

1) такт; отбива́ние та́кта

2) ритм, разме́р;

the measured beat of the waves разме́ренный плеск волн

3) уда́р; бой (барабана); бие́ние (сердца)

4) колеба́ние (маятника)

5) дозо́р, обхо́д; райо́н (обхода);

to be off (или out of) one’s beat быть вне привы́чной сфе́ры де́ятельности или компете́нции

I’ve never seen his beat он бесподо́бен

beat generation би́тники

1) бить, ударя́ть, колоти́ть

3) би́ться (о сердце); разбива́ться (как волны о скалы); хлеста́ть, стуча́ться (как дождь в окна)

4) побива́ть, побежда́ть;

to beat smb. at his own game бить кого́-л. его́ же ору́жием

5) превосходи́ть;

it beats the band (или all, anything, creation, my grandmother, the devil, hell, the world) э́то превосхо́дит всё; э́то невероя́тно; ну, э́то уж сли́шком!

to beat a bill избежа́ть упла́ты по счёту

beat about:

beat back отбива́ть, отража́ть;

beat down

а) сбива́ть (цену);

б) сломи́ть (сопротивление, оппозицию);

beat in проломи́ть; раздави́ть;

beat into вбива́ть, вкола́чивать;

beat off = beat back;

beat out выбива́ть, кова́ть (металл);

beat up

б) вербова́ть (рекрутов);

в) избива́ть; обходи́ться со зве́рской жесто́костью;

г):

can you beat it? мо́жете ли вы себе́ предста́вить что-л. подо́бное?