Beat vs. Bass
Beatnoun
A stroke; a blow.
Beatnoun
A pulsation or throb.
Beatnoun
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.
Beatnoun
A rhythm.
Beatnoun
(music) [specifically] The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
Beatnoun
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
Beatnoun
(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
Beatnoun
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
Beatnoun
(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
Beatnoun
In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
Beatnoun
(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
Beatnoun
That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
Beatnoun
(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
Beatnoun
(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
Beatnoun
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
Beatnoun
(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
Beatnoun
(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
Beatnoun
A beatnik.
Beatverb
(transitive) To hit; strike
Beatverb
(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
Beatverb
(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Beatverb
(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
Beatverb
(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
Beatverb
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
Beatverb
(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
Beatverb
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Beatverb
of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
Beatverb
(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
Beatverb
To tread, as a path.
Beatverb
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Beatverb
To be in agitation or doubt.
Beatverb
To make a sound when struck.
Beatverb
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
Beatverb
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.
Beatverb
(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
Beatverb
to masturbate.
Beatadjective
exhausted
Beatadjective
dilapidated, beat up
Beatadjective
(gay slang) fabulous
Beatadjective
(slang) boring
Beatadjective
ugly
Beatverb
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.
Beatverb
To punish by blows; to thrash.
Beatverb
To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
Beatverb
To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
Beatverb
To tread, as a path.
Beatverb
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
Beatverb
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; - often with out.
Beatverb
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Beatverb
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.
Beatverb
to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
Beatverb
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.
Beatverb
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Beatverb
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
Beatverb
To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.
Beatverb
To be in agitation or doubt.
Beatverb
To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
Beatverb
To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
Beatverb
To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
Beatverb
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.
Beatnoun
A stroke; a blow.
Beatnoun
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
Beatnoun
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.
Beatnoun
A sudden swelling or reënforcement 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.
Beatnoun
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.
Beatnoun
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
Beatnoun
A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; - often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, deadbeat.
Beatnoun
One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
Beatnoun
The act of one that beats a person or thing
Beatnoun
The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
Beatnoun
A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
Beatadjective
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Beatnoun
a regular route for a sentry or policeman;
Beatnoun
the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;
Beatnoun
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;
Beatnoun
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
Beatnoun
a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
Beatnoun
the sound of stroke or blow;
Beatnoun
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Beatnoun
a regular rate of repetition;
Beatnoun
a stroke or blow;
Beatnoun
the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
Beatverb
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
Beatverb
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;
Beatverb
hit repeatedly;
Beatverb
move rhythmically;
Beatverb
shape by beating;
Beatverb
make a rhythmic sound;
Beatverb
glare or strike with great intensity;
Beatverb
move with a thrashing motion;
Beatverb
sail with much tacking or with difficulty;
Beatverb
stir vigorously;
Beatverb
strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;
Beatverb
be superior;
Beatverb
avoid paying;
Beatverb
make a sound like a clock or a timer;
Beatverb
move with a flapping motion;
Beatverb
indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
Beatverb
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
Beatverb
make by pounding or trampling;
Beatverb
produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;
Beatverb
strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
Beatverb
beat through cleverness and wit;
Beatverb
be a mystery or bewildering to;
Beatverb
wear out completely;
Beatadjective
very tired;
Bassadjective
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
Bassnoun
A low spectrum of sound tones.
Bassnoun
A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
Bassnoun
A male singer who sings in the bass range.
Bassnoun
(musical instrument) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
Bassnoun
The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
Bassnoun
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
Bassnoun
The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
Bassnoun
Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
Bassnoun
Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
Bassverb
To sound in a deep tone.
Bassnoun
An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
Bassnoun
The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
Bassnoun
Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
Bassnoun
The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciæna ocellata). See Redfish.
Bassnoun
The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
Bassnoun
A hassock or thick mat.
Bassnoun
A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
Bassnoun
The lowest part in a musical composition.
Bassadjective
Deep or grave in tone.
Bassverb
To sound in a deep tone.
Bassnoun
the lowest part of the musical range
Bassnoun
the lowest part in polyphonic music
Bassnoun
an adult male singer with the lowest voice
Bassnoun
the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
Bassnoun
any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
Bassnoun
the lowest adult male singing voice
Bassnoun
the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
Bassnoun
nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
Bassadjective
having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range;
Bassnoun
the lowest adult male singing voice
Bassnoun
a singer with a bass voice.
Bassnoun
a part written for a bass voice.
Bassnoun
denoting the member of a family of instruments that is the lowest in pitch
Bassnoun
a bass guitar or double bass.
Bassnoun
the low-frequency output of a radio or audio system, corresponding to the bass in music.
Bassnoun
the common European freshwater perch.
Bassnoun
any of a number of fish similar to or related to the perch.
Bassnoun
another term for bast
