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(noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing |
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Related Words: sailing |
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(noun) a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" |
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Related Words: stroke |
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(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in tennsi championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
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Synonyms: beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
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Related Words: bat, best, cheat, checkmate, chicane, chouse, clobber, defeat, drub, exceed, get the jump, immobilize, jockey, lick, mop up, outdo, outfight, outflank, outgo, outmatch, outplay, outpoint, outscore, outstrip, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, pip, rack up, rout, scoop, screw, shaft, spread-eagle, spreadeagle, surmount, surpass, thrash, trump, whip, whomp, worst |
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(verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
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Synonyms: beat up |
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Related Words: baste, batter, belabor, belabour, cane, clobber, flail, flog, kayo, knock cold, knock out, lam, lambast, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, paddle, pistol-whip, rough up, slash, soak, spank, strap, strong-arm, thrash, thresh, trounce, welt, whip |
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(verb) hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
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Related Words: bastinado, beetle, coldcock, deck, dump, floor, hammer, knock down, paste, strike, thrash, thresh, whang |
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(verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" |
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Related Words: strike |
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(verb) stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; beat the cream" |
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Synonyms: scramble |
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Related Words: cream, stir, toss, whip, whisk |
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(verb) shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
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Related Words: forge, forge, form, hammer, mold, mould, shape |
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(verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly: "beat the drum" |
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Related Words: play, play on |
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(verb) make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" |
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Synonyms: pound, thump |
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Related Words: flap, flutter, move, palpitate, pulsate, pulse, throb |
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(verb) indicate by beating; as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" |
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Related Words: beat out, tap out, thump out |
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(verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" |
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Related Words: sail |
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(verb) move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
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Synonyms: flap |
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Related Words: clap, flail, move, thresh |
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(verb) move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
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Synonyms: flap |
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Related Words: bate, clap, displace, move |
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(verb) glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" |
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Related Words: glare |
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(verb) be superior: "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" |
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Related Words: pace, rate |
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(noun) the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" |
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Related Words: sound |
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(noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" |
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Synonyms: circuit, round |
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Related Words: path, route |
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(noun) 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 |
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Related Words: oscillation, vibration |
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(verb) wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat" |
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Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out |
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Related Words: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, play, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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(verb) make a rhythmic sound: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
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Synonyms: drum, thrum |
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Related Words: go, sound |
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(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme" |
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Synonyms: cheat, rip off, sell short |
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Related Words: beguile, bilk, bunco, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, fleece, gazump, gyp, hoodwink, hook, juggle, mulct, nobble, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, rook, soak, surcharge, swindle, victimise, victimize, welsh, whipsaw |
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(satellite adjective) (informal) very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" |
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Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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(noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
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Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
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Related Words: downbeat, musical time, syncopation, upbeat |
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(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
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Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter |
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Related Words: common measure, common meter, foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern, scansion |
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(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
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Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
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Related Words: go, sound |
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(noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" |
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Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
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Related Words: diastole, periodic event, pounding, recurrent event, systole, throb, throbbing |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
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Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
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Related Words: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!" |
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Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, stupify, trounce |
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Related Words: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, elude, escape, fox, fuddle, mix up, riddle, stagger, stump, throw |
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