beat
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L334774 on Wikidata ↗noun
- unit of time in music
- effect in acoustics
- rhythmic pulsation
verb
- hit repeatedly
- defeat
- throb
- to remove dust
- (cause) pulsating motion that often makes sound
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /biːt/ / /bɛt/
adj
Etymology: From beatnik, or beat generation.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
“beat poetry”
noun
Etymology: From beatnik, or beat generation.
- A beatnik.
“The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English bet (simple past of beten "to beat"), from Old English bēot (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, perhaps by analogy with the Early Modern English paradigm eat:eat (“ate”):eaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read (/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.
- simple past tense of beat
- past participle of beat