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src: wikipedia
- Definition
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- beat :a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name
- beat :come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship|We beat the competition|Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
- beat :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
- beat :the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- he could feel the beat of her heart
- beat :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
- beat :the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- the piece has a fast rhythm|the conductor set the beat
- beat :hit repeatedly
- beat on the door|beat the table with his shoe
- beat :move rhythmically
- Her heart was beating fast