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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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Oryx :: Oryx (n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia..

Drum :: Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers..

Tick :: Tick (v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat..

Beatified :: Beatified (imp. & p. p.) of Beatif.

Wallop :: Wallop (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.

Thump :: Thump (v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound..

Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well..

Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

Tew :: Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw..

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

Stramash :: Stramash (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy..

Whaler :: Whaler (n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size..

Pulsate :: Pulsate (v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart..

Dicrotism :: Dicrotism (n.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

Pulsative :: Pulsative (a.) Beating; throbbing.

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis..

Pulsator :: Pulsator (n.) That which beats or throbs in working.

Slat :: Slat (v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

Beatification :: Beatification (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of the blessed, or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely..