What is the meaning of Beat?

A stroke; a blow.

A pulsation or throb.

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.

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

A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

An area of a person's responsibility, especially

  1. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

    The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

    The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

    An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

    That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

    A precinct.

    A place of habitual or frequent resort.

    1. An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.

    An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.

    A low cheat or swindler.

    The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

    A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

    A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

    To hit; to strike.

    To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

    To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

    To move with pulsation or throbbing.

    To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

    To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

    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.

    To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

    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.

    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.

    To arrive at a place before someone.

    To have sexual intercourse.

    To rob.

    simple past tense of beat

    past participle of beat

    Exhausted.

    Dilapidated, beat up.

    Having impressively attractive makeup.

    Boring.

    Ugly.

    A beatnik.

    Relating to the Beat Generation.

    saint, beatified

    monk

    A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music

    beat an early rock genre.

    beat

    beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)

    beat (rhythm accompanying music)

    third-person singular present active indicative of beō

    drunk

    meat

    drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy

    beat

    happiness

    Source: wiktionary.org