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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Lodge :: Lodge (v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..
Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
Drumbeat :: Drumbeat (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Flagellation :: Flagellation (n.) A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure..
Trabeated :: Trabeated (a.) Furnished with an entablature.
Lathe :: Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..
Dish :: Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Nubble :: Nubble (v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.
Chamade :: Chamade (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species)..
Pound :: Pound (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
Beatificate :: Beatificate (v. t.) To beatify.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..
Bray :: Bray (v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine..
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
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