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
Pronunciation
enPR: bēt, IPA(key): /biːt/
Homophone: beet
Rhymes: -iːt
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(butʿ)).
Noun
beat (pluralbeats)
A stroke; a blow.
He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
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; a plot point or story development.
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
to walk the beat
(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
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; to excel (someone) 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, Britain, 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 less 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, Britain, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms:do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate
(transitive, slang) To rob.
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Adjective
beat (comparativemore beat, superlativemost beat)
(US slang) exhausted
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
dilapidated, beat up
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
(African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup
Her face was beat for the gods!
(slang) boring
(slang, of a person) ugly
Synonyms
(exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
(dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
(boring): See also Thesaurus:boring
(ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly
Translations
Etymology 2
From beatnik
Noun
beat (pluralbeats)
A beatnik.
2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.
Derived terms
beat generation
References
DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. →ISBN.