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  1. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
  2. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
  3. move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
  4. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  5. indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
  6. the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
  7. a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
  8. sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
  9. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
  10. move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
  11. hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
  12. avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
  13. strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
  14. be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
  15. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
  16. 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"
  17. a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
  18. stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
  19. a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
  20. shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
  21. a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored mod
  22. produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
  23. make by poundin
  24. a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
  25. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
  26. 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
  27. make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through

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