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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Plangent :: Plangent (a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave..
Pathless :: Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods..
Towel :: Towel (v. t.) To beat with a stick.
Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..
Brain :: Brain (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat..
Mall :: Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Dead Beat :: Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7..
Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Beatification.
Beat :: Beat (p. p.) of Bea.
Beaten :: Beaten () of Bea.
Beat :: Beat (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit..
Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
Browbeaten :: Browbeaten (p. p.) of Browbea.
Tricrotism :: Tricrotism (n.) That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis..
Feague :: Feague (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drive.
Bat :: Bat (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
Roll :: Roll (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon..
Beating :: Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.
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