Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word beat. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in beat.
Definitions and meaning of beat
beat
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishbeten, from Old Englishbēatan(“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic*bautan, from Proto-Germanic*bautaną(“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰewd-(“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irishfo·botha(“he threatened”), Latinconfutō(“I strike down”), fūstis(“stick, club”), Albanianbahe(“sling”), Lithuanianbaudžiù, Old Armenianբութ(butʻ)).
Pronunciation
enPR: bēt, IPA(key): /biːt/
Homophone: beet
Rhymes: -iːt
Noun
beat (pluralbeats)
A stroke; a blow.
A pulsation or throb.
(music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
A rhythm.
(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
Synonym:newsbeat
(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
(colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
(dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
(Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
Synonyms:knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit
(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
(intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
(transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
Synonym:negotiate
(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
To tread, as a path.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
To be in agitation or doubt.
To make a sound when struck.
(military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
(intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms:do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate
(transitive, slang) To rob.
Conjugation
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Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishbet(simple past of beten "to beat"), from Old Englishbēot(simple past of bēatan "to beat"). Middle English bet would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle beaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read(/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.
“beat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“beat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“beat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“beat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishbeat.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bit/
Hyphenation: beat
Rhymes: -it
Homophones: bied, biedt, biet
Noun
beatm (pluralbeats, diminutivebeatjen)
A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
(music)beat an early rock genre.
Derived terms
beatmis
beatmuziek
Anagrams
bate
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishbeat.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbiːt/, [ˈbiːt̪]
Noun
beat
(jazz, hiphop, EDM) beat
Declension
Synonyms
biitti
Derived terms
Further reading
“beat”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][8] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishbeat.
Adjective
beat (invariable)
beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)
Noun
beatm (invariable)
beat (rhythm accompanying music)
Anagrams
beta, tabe
Latin
Verb
beat
third-person singular present active indicative of beō
Megleno-Romanian
Etymology
From a contracted Vulgar Latin form of Late Latinbibitus(“drunk”), from Latinbibō(“drink”).
Adjective
beat
drunk
Romanian
Etymology 1
From a contracted Vulgar Latin form (possibly *beb(e)tus) of Late Latinbibitus(“drunk”), from Latinbibō(“drink”). Compare Spanishbeodo.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [be̯at]
Adjective
beatm or n (feminine singularbeată, masculine pluralbeți, feminine and neuter pluralbete)
drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy
Synonyms:îmbătat; băut; (very formal)în stare de ebrietate; (slang)matol; (slang)matolit; (slang)pilit; (slang)mangă; (slang)țeapăn; (slang)cherchelit