Usually means: Rhythm unit in musical time.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beat, Beat, beat: Wordnik
  7. beat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beat: Wiktionary
  9. beat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. beat: Dictionary.com
  13. beat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. beat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BEAT, Beat (Bowery Electric album), Beat (Kaela Kimura song), Beat (King Crimson album), Beat (TV series), Beat (acoustics), Beat (app), Beat (band), Beat (charity), Beat (company), Beat (disambiguation), Beat (drink), Beat (filmmaking), Beat (hip hop), Beat (music), Beat (name), Beat (police), Beat (song), Beat, The Beat (American band), The Beat (American band album), The Beat (Boney James album), The Beat (British band), The Beat (Philippine TV series), The Beat (TV series), The Beat (band), The Beat (disambiguation), The (English) Beat, The Beat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Beat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. beat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. beat: Rhymezone
  19. beat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. beat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BEAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Beat, Beat, Beat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. beat: Free Dictionary
  24. beat: ESL Idiom Page
  25. beat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. beat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. beat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  6. beat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beat (album), beat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beat (acoustics), Beat (album), beat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Beat (album), beat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. BEAT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. beat: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Beat: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. beat: The Folk File
  4. beat: ESL Slang page
  5. The Beat, beat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Beat: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A stroke; a blow.
noun:  A pulsation or throb.
noun:  (music) 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.
noun:  A rhythm.
noun:  (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
noun:  The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
noun:  The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
noun:  (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
noun:  (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
noun:  The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
noun:  (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
noun:  (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
noun:  (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
noun:  (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
noun:  (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
noun:  (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
noun:  (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
noun:  (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
noun:  (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
verb:  (transitive) To hit; to strike.
verb:  (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
verb:  (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
verb:  (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
verb:  (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
verb:  (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
verb:  To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
verb:  (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
verb:  (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
verb:  To tread, as a path.
verb:  To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
verb:  To be in agitation or doubt.
verb:  To make a sound when struck.
verb:  (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
verb:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
verb:  (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
verb:  simple past tense of beat
adjective:  (US slang) Exhausted.
adjective:  (slang) Dilapidated, beat up.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.
adjective:  (slang) Boring.
adjective:  (slang, of a person) Ugly.
noun:  A beatnik.
adjective:  Relating to the Beat Generation.

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