| 释义 |
Verb: beat (beat,beaten) beet- Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"
-
Noun: beat beet- A regular route for a sentry or policeman
"in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
- round - The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
"he could feel the beat of her heart"
- pulse, pulsation, heartbeat - The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
"the conductor set the beat"
- rhythm, musical rhythm - 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
- A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behaviour
- beatnik - The sound of stroke or blow
"he heard the beat of a drum" - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- meter [US], metre [Brit, Cdn], measure, cadence - A regular rate of repetition
"the cox raised the beat" - A stroke or blow
"the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" - The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
Adjective: beat beet- Very tired
"so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"
- all in, bushed, dead
Sounds like: beet Derived forms: beaten, beat, beats, beating See also: beatable, beaten, beater, beating, heterodyne, tired Type of: agitate, be, bedevil, befuddle, cheat, chisel, commove, confound, confuse, create, defeat, discombobulate, displace, disturb, exceed, fag, fag out [Brit], fatigue, forge, form, fox, fuddle, get the better of, glare, go, itinerary, jade, make, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], move, musical time, nonconformist, oscillation, outdo, outgo [archaic], outmatch, outperform, outstrip, outwear, overcome, pace, path, periodic event, play, poetic rhythm, prosody, raise up, rate, recurrent event, recusant, rhythmic pattern, rip off, route, sail, sailing, shake up, shape, sound, stir up, strike, stroke, surmount, surpass, throw, tire, tire out, vex, vibration, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, work Part of: beat generation, beatniks, beats Encyclopedia: Beat |