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单词 beat
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beatverb

uk​/biːt/us​/biːt/beat, beaten or US also beat

beat verb (DEFEAT)

B1 [ T ] to defeat or do better than:

Simon always beats me at tennis.
Holland beat Belgium (by) 3–1.
The Miami Heat beat the Pacers 95-90/by five points.
Our team was comfortably/easily/soundly beaten in the first round of the competition.
The Nationalists were narrowly beaten in the election.
He beat me fair and square (= without cheating).
They were beaten hands down (= completely) by their opponents.
She has beaten her own record of three minutes ten seconds.

B2 informal to be better or more enjoyable than another activity or experience:

[ + -ing verb ] Taking the bus sure beats walking.
slang Taking the bus beats the hell out of (= is much better than) walking all the way there.
You can't beat (= there is nothing more enjoyable than) a cold beer on a hot afternoon.

[ T ] To beat something that is going to happen is to take action before the thing happens:

Let's try to beat the traffic by leaving early in the morning.
I always do my shopping early to beat the rush.
beat sb to it

to do something before someone else does it:

I was just going to clean the kitchen, but you beat me to it.

More examples

  • Paul beat me by three games to two .
  • With this new product, we are well situated to beat our competitors.
  • They will be a tough team to beat.
  • The Liberal Democrats may form a pact with Labour to try to beat the Conservatives in the next election.
  • She came within two seconds of beating the world record.

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Winning and defeating

  • annihilate
  • bank
  • be one in the eye for sb idiom
  • beat sb at their own game idiom
  • beat sb hollow idiom
  • convincing
  • outmanoeuvre
  • outpace
  • outperform
  • outscore
  • overpower
  • pip
  • sew
  • sweep
  • trouncing
  • trump
  • unassailable
  • unbeaten
  • undefeated
  • wipe

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Surpassing in quality or number
Acting and acts
Preceding and introducing

beat verb (HIT)

B2 [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] to hit repeatedly:

They saw him beating his dog with a stick.
The child had been brutally/savagely beaten.
She was beaten to death.
[ + obj + adj ] He was beaten senseless.
Beat the drum.
The rain was beating down incessantly on the tin roof.
beat a path through sth

to form a path in an area where long grass or bushes grow closely together, by hitting the plants with your hands or an object, or by stepping on them:

We beat a path through the undergrowth.

More examples

  • The rain beat against her face as she struggled through the wind.
  • They've threatened to beat him to a jelly if he doesn't repay the money.
  • People were shocked by the advertisement which depicted a woman beating her husband.
  • His bruises lent credence to his statement that he had been beaten.
  • I felt sick when I heard about the prisoners being beaten.

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Hitting and beating

  • a bunch of fives idiom
  • a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
  • at-risk
  • bang up sb/sth
  • bashing
  • bunch
  • conk
  • deck
  • hell
  • kick
  • knock
  • knock sb's block off idiom
  • lay
  • lay sb out
  • licking
  • mess sb up
  • pound
  • pummel
  • swing
  • thump

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Roads: pedestrian routes

beat verb (MIX)

C1 to mix something repeatedly using a utensil such as a spoon or whisk:

To make an omelette you first beat the eggs.

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Mixing and mixtures

  • be neither one thing nor the other idiom
  • blend
  • blend in/blend into sth
  • brew
  • cocktail
  • concoction
  • cross-fertilization
  • decoction
  • emulsion
  • impure
  • mashup
  • meld
  • mingle
  • mixture
  • neither
  • preparation
  • roll
  • rolled into one idiom
  • substance
  • synthesis

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Cookery terms

beat verb (MOVEMENT)

B1 [ I or T ] to (cause to) make a regular movement or sound:

The doctor could feel no pulse beating.
Her heart started to beat faster.
The hummingbird beats its wings at great speed.
beat time

to make a regular sound or movement to music

More examples

  • They danced to the beat of the drums.
  • The beat of the music was strangely hypnotic.
  • The car radio was pumping out music with a heavy beat.
  • Every time he looks at me my heart skips a beat.
  • Waltzes have three beats in/to the bar.

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Shaking, swinging and vibrating

  • agitate
  • brandish
  • churn
  • flourish
  • fluff sth up
  • jitter
  • joggle
  • resonate
  • reverberate
  • rocky
  • shake
  • stir
  • stir sth up
  • swing
  • teeter
  • throb
  • totter
  • tremble
  • tremulous
  • wag

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Playing music

Idiom(s)

beat sb at their own game
beat sb hollow
beat sb's brains out
beat your breast/chest
beat a path to sb's door
beat a retreat
beat around the bush
beat a dead horse
beat it!
beat the rap
if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
it beats me
take some beating
that beats everything

Phrasal verb(s)

beat sb/sth back
beat down
beat sb down
beat sb off
beat off
beat sth out
beat sb out
beat sth out of sb
beat sb up
beat yourself up
beat up on sb

beatadjective [ after verb ]

uk​/biːt/us​/biːt/informal

extremely tired:

I'm beat - I'm going to bed.
You've been working too hard, you look dead beat.
See also
deadbeat

beatnoun

uk​/biːt/us​/biːt/

beat noun (MOVEMENT)

B2 [ C or U ] a regular movement or sound, especially that made by your heart:

I put my head on his chest but I could feel no heartbeat.
My heart skipped a beat (= I felt very excited) when she said, "Yes, I'll marry you".

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  • They danced to the beat of the drums.
  • The beat of the music was strangely hypnotic.
  • The car radio was pumping out music with a heavy beat.
  • Every time he looks at me my heart skips a beat.
  • Waltzes have three beats in/to the bar.

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The circulatory system & blood

  • Abo
  • accessory pathway
  • atrioventricular
  • auricular
  • blood donor
  • blood sugar
  • capillary
  • erectile
  • intravenous
  • LV
  • mediastinal
  • microvascular
  • myocardial
  • myocarditis
  • oxyhaemoglobin
  • palpitate
  • pressure point
  • pulse
  • Rh factor
  • semilunar valve

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beat noun (MUSIC)

B2 [ C or U ] in music, a regular emphasis, or a place in the music where such an emphasis is expected:

The guitar comes in on the third beat.
Make sure you play on the beat.
He tapped his foot to the beat (= rhythm) of the music.

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Beats or lengths of musical notes

  • bar
  • bar line
  • crotchet
  • eighth note
  • half note
  • measure
  • minim
  • octave
  • pause
  • phrase
  • quarter note
  • quaver
  • rest
  • semibreve
  • semiquaver
  • sixteenth note
  • time
  • time signature
  • timing
  • whole note

beat noun (AREA)

[ C usually singular ] an area for which someone, such as a police officer, has responsibility as part of their job:

Bob has worked as an officer on this particular beat for 20 years.
be on/walking the beat

A police officer who is on/walking the beat is on duty, walking around rather than driving in a police car.

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The police generally

  • baton
  • baton charge
  • billy club
  • booze bus
  • CID
  • constabulary
  • escort
  • fuzz
  • met
  • plain clothes
  • police
  • police department
  • police force
  • precinct
  • the fraud squad
  • the long arm of the law idiom
  • the Metropolitan Police
  • the RCMP
  • the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • warrant

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beatverb

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beat verb (DEFEAT)

[ T ] past tense beat, past participle beaten /ˈbi·tən/beat to defeat a competitor, or to do or be better than someone or something:

In football, the Giants beat the 49ers, 17-3.
Most people think that the governor will beat his opponent.
The room wasn’t much, but it beat driving to a hotel 20 miles away.

[ T ] past tense beat, past participle beaten /ˈbi·tən/beat To beat something that is going to happen is to take action that will prevent it from having an effect on you:

I leave work early to beat the traffic.

beat verb (HIT)

[ I/T ] past tense beat, past participle beaten /ˈbit·ən/beat to hit repeatedly:

[ T ] He looked as if he’d been beaten.
[ I ] The children were beating on the table.

beat verb (MIX)

[ T ] past tense beat, past participle beaten /ˈbit·ən/beat to mix food with a fast circular motion:

[ M ] Beat in the egg yolks.

beat verb (RHYTHM)

[ I/T ] past tense beat, past participle beaten /ˈbit·ən/beat to make a rhythmic sound or movement, or to hit something in rhythm to make such a sound:

[ I ] I was so nervous I could feel my heart beating.
[ T ] He steadily beat the drum.
[ I ] Without calcium, your heart could not beat correctly.

Idiom(s)

beat around the bush
beat it
(it) beats me

Phrasal verb(s)

beat someone to something
beat down
beat out someone
beat up someone
beat up on someone

beatnoun [ C usually sing ]

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beat noun [ C usually sing ] (AREA)

an area for which someone, esp. a police officer, has responsibility as part of the job:

People are comforted to see cops on the beat.

beat noun [ C usually sing ] (RHYTHM)

music the rhythmic sound in music that repeats regularly:

We clapped in time to the beat.

beatadjective

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beat adjective (TIRED)

extremely tired:

I’m beat – I’m going to bed.

beatverb [ T ]

uk​/biːt/us​beat, beaten, US also beat

to do better than someone or something:

Yesterday's close beat the record set Feb. 1.
With their lowest price guarantee, they will beat the price of a competitor's product by 10%.
beat estimates/expectations/forecasts Declines in shares of the world's biggest chip maker halted when the company beat expectations for profits.
They are selling the software packages at prices that are hard to beat.
beat the competition

to be more successful than other people or companies that you are competing against:

The way to beat the competition is to recruit and retain talented staff.
beat a path to sb's door

to be eager to buy or get something from someone:

By making furniture distinguished in design and workmanship, it has persuaded buyers to beat a path to its door.
beat a (hasty) retreat

to decide not to continue with something that has become too difficult or not worth doing:

Most of the market beat a hasty retreat, investors being unimpressed by a volatile performance on Wall Street.
beat a retreat from sth The prime minister's cabinet continues to beat a retreat from many economic reforms.
beat sb at their own game

informal to use the methods by which someone has tried to defeat you to your own advantage:

By buying two competitors who tried to beat him at his own game, he created the three networks he now owns.
beat sb to it

to achieve something before someone else does it:

We got very close to buying the franchise last year before another company beat us to it.
beat the odds

to succeed despite having a disadvantage:

Many mergers fail to deliver value to shareholders, but the bank's new president thinks it will be able to beat the odds.
if you can't beat 'em, join 'em also if you can't beat them, join them informal

said when you accept that you cannot be as successful as someone else without doing what they do:

If you can't beat them, join them. Beginning in February the domestic distributor will become the exclusive U.S. importer for the popular foreign brands.
take some beating

to do something so well that it is difficult for anyone else to do better:

The automaker has delivered an impressive hatchback car that will take some beating.

Phrasal verb(s)

beat sb/sth back
beat sb/sth down
beat off sb/sth
beat out sb/sth
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