beats
beets
- n a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
- n a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- n the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- n the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- n a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- n a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- n the sound of stroke or blow
- n (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- n a regular rate of repetition
- n a stroke or blow
the signal was two beats on the steam pipe - n the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- v come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- v give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- v hit repeatedly
- v move rhythmically
- v shape by beating
- v make a rhythmic sound
- v glare or strike with great intensity
- v move with a thrashing motion
- v sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- v stir vigorously
- v strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- v be superior
Reading beats watching television
This sure beats work! - v avoid paying
- v make a sound like a clock or a timer
- v move with a flapping motion
- v indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- v move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- v make by pounding or trampling
- v produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- v strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- v beat through cleverness and wit
- v be a mystery or bewildering to
This beats me! - v wear out completely
- Asked which candidate is most likeable, Obama beats McCain 65% to 20%; as for which is the real candidate for change, he leads 61% to 17%.
- A man beats his wife in any one of 47 states.
- In a land where roads are often busted, rutted or simply nonexistent, nothing beats a bike for getting medicine to the people and people to the hospital.