Beat vs. Bet
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;
Betnoun
A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
Betnoun
A degree of certainty.
Betnoun
alternative form of beth
Betverb
To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
Betverb
To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
Betverb
(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
Betpreposition
(knitting) between
Betnoun
That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.
Betverb
To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.
Bet
imp. & p. p. of Beat.
Betadjective
An early form of Better.
Betnoun
the money risked on a gamble
Betnoun
the act of gambling;
Betverb
maintain with or as if with a bet;
Betverb
stake on the outcome of an issue;
Betverb
have faith or confidence in;
Betverb
risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game
Betverb
risk a sum of money against (someone) on the outcome or likelihood of a future event
Betverb
used to express certainty
Betnoun
an act of betting a sum of money
Betnoun
a sum of money staked
Betnoun
a candidate or option offering a specified likelihood of success
Betnoun
one's opinion about a future event
