Found 4 items, similar to Beat.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: beat mengalahkan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: beat balun, berdebar, berdentaman, berdenyut, berdetak, bergedoncak, debar, dengap, dentangan, denyut, endut, gebuk, gedoncak, geletar, gendang, gerakan, irama, memukul, memukuli, mendetak, mengaduk, mengalahkan, menggebuk, menggepuk, mengocok, tempo
English → English (WordNet) Definition: beat beat adj : 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” [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)] [also: beaten] beat n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; “in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name” [syn: round] 2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; “he could feel the beat of her heart” [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat] 3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; “the piece has a fast rhythm”; “the conductor set the beat” [syn: rhythm, musical rhythm] 4: 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 5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior [syn: beatnik] 6: the sound of stroke or blow; “he heard the beat of a drum” 7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, cadence] 8: a regular rate of repetition; “the cox raised the beat” 9: a stroke or blow; “the signal was two beats on the steam pipe” 10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing [also: beaten] beat v 1: 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” [syn: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish] 2: 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” [syn: beat up, work over ] 3: hit repeatedly; “beat on the door”; “beat the table with his shoe” 4: move rhythmically; “Her heart was beating fast” [syn: pound, thump] 5: shape by beating; “beat swords into ploughshares” 6: make a rhythmic sound; “Rain drummed against the windshield”; “The drums beat all night” [syn: drum, thrum] 7: glare or strike with great intensity; “The sun was beating down on us” 8: move with a thrashing motion; “The bird flapped its wings”; “The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky” [syn: flap] 9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; “The boat beat in the strong wind” 10: stir vigorously; “beat the egg whites”; “beat the cream” [syn: scramble] 11: 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” 12: be superior; “Reading beats watching television”; “This sure beats work!” 13: avoid paying; “beat the subway fare” [syn: bunk] 14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; “the clocks were ticking”; “the grandfather clock beat midnight” [syn: tick, ticktock, ticktack] 15: move with a flapping motion; “The bird's wings were flapping” [syn: flap] 16: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; “Beat the rhythm” 17: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; “the city pulsated with music and excitement” [syn: pulsate, quiver] 18: make by pounding or trampling; “beat a path through the forest” 19: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; “beat the drum” 20: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting 21: beat through cleverness and wit; “I beat the traffic”; “She outfoxed her competitors” [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, circumvent] 22: be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me--I don't know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me” [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 23: wear out completely; “This kind of work exhausts me”; “I'm beat”; “He was all washed up after the exam” [syn: exhaust, wash up, tucker, tucker out] [also: beaten]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Beat Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. [1913 Webster] They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. [1913 Webster] 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. [1913 Webster] 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. [1913 Webster] To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. [1913 Webster] A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To tread, as a path. [1913 Webster] Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster] 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to. [1913 Webster] He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. [1913 Webster] Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. [1913 Webster] 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. [1913 Webster] 10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that. [1913 Webster] 11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. [1913 Webster] To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. To beat off, to repel or drive back. To beat out, to extend by hammering. To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. “Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.” --South. To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. [1913 Webster] Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. [1913 Webster] Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. [1913 Webster] They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. [1913 Webster] 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. [1913 Webster] 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. [1913 Webster] To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. [1913 Webster] A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To tread, as a path. [1913 Webster] Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster] 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to. [1913 Webster] He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. [1913 Webster] Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. [1913 Webster] 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. [1913 Webster] 10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that. [1913 Webster] 11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. [1913 Webster] To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. To beat off, to repel or drive back. To beat out, to extend by hammering. To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. “Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.” --South. To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. [1913 Webster] Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. [1913 Webster] Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. [1913 Webster] They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. [1913 Webster] 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. [1913 Webster] 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. [1913 Webster] To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. [1913 Webster] A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To tread, as a path. [1913 Webster] Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster] 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to. [1913 Webster] He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. [1913 Webster] Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. [1913 Webster] 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. [1913 Webster] 10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that. [1913 Webster] 11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. [1913 Webster] To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. To beat off, to repel or drive back. To beat out, to extend by hammering. To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. “Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.” --South. To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. [1913 Webster] Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. [1913 Webster] Beat \Beat\, v. i. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. [1913 Webster] The men of the city . . . beat at the door. --Judges. xix. 22. [1913 Webster] 2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. [1913 Webster] A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do. [1913 Webster] Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die. --Jonah iv. 8. [1913 Webster] Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic] [1913 Webster] To still my beating mind. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. [1913 Webster] 6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. [1913 Webster] 7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. [1913 Webster] 8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. [1913 Webster] A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. --Addison. To beat about the bush, to approach a subject circuitously. To beat up and down (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. To beat up for recruits, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise. To beat the rap, to be acquitted of an accusation; -- especially, by some sly or deceptive means, rather than to be proven innocent. [1913 Webster] Beat \Beat\, a. Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] Beat \Beat\, n. 1. A stroke; a blow. [1913 Webster] He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mus.) (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. [1913 Webster] 4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re["e]nforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8. [1913 Webster] 5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat; analogously, for newspaper reporters, the subject or territory that they are assigned to cover; as, the Washington beat. [1913 Webster +PJC] 6. A place of habitual or frequent resort. [1913 Webster] 7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, deadbeat. [Low] [1913 Webster] Beat of drum (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. Beat of a watch, or Beat of a clock, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the stroke is at equal or unequal intervals. [1913 Webster] Beat \Beat\, n. 1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as: (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; -- also called a scoop or exclusive. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. “Driven out in the course of a beat.” --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them. --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]