Definition of beat

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Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

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Pulverate :: Pulverate (v. t.) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.
Rebut :: Rebut (v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Exhausted; tired out.
Lambaste :: Lambaste (v. t.) To beat severely.
War-beaten :: War-beaten (a.) Warworn.
Pulse :: Pulse (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb..
Weather-beaten :: Weather-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather..
Dry-beat :: Dry-beat (v. t.) To beat severely.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
Statable :: Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation..
Pulse :: Pulse (n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement..
Sound :: Sound (superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating..
Fob :: Fob (v.t.) To beat; to maul.
Leather :: Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather..
Suggillation :: Suggillate (v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue..
Laveer :: Laveer (v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..
Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.
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