beat : Idioms & Phrases

• (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress.

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• verb depart hastily
  

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• verb search anxiously
  cast around; cast about.
  

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• verb be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
  equivocate; tergiversate; palter; prevaricate.
  

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• verb cause to move back by force or influence
  repulse; repel; drive; push back; force back.
  
  • repel the enemy
  • push back the urge to smoke
  • beat back the invaders

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• verb persuade the seller to accept a lower price
  bargain down.
  
  • She beat the merchant down $100
• verb shine hard
  
  • The sun beat down on the hikers
• verb dislodge from a position
  
  • She beat the dealer down to a much better price

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• noun 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)
  beatniks; beats.
  

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• verb teach by drills and repetition
  hammer in; ram down; drill in.
  

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• the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals.

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• (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.

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• verb come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  shell; beat; trounce; crush; vanquish.
  
  • Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
  • We beat the competition
  • Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
• verb beat out a rhythm
  thump out; tap out.
  

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• verb give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
  beat; work over.
  
  • Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
  • The teacher used to beat the students
• verb gather
  rally; drum up.
  
  • drum up support

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• adjective satellite damaged by blows or hard usage
  battered; beat-up.
  
  • a battered old car
  • the beaten-up old Ford

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• adjective satellite damaged by blows or hard usage
  battered; beat-up.
  
  • a battered old car
  • the beaten-up old Ford

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• noun a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
  reed; reed instrument.
  

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• noun the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds
  M.M.; bpm; metronome marking.
  

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Dead` beat"

Definitions

1. See Beat, n., 7. Low, U.S.

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• a kind of balance valve usually consisting of a movable, open-ended, turban-shaped shell provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one above another, which rest upon two corresponding seats when the valve is closed.

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Dry"-beat` transitive verb

Definitions

1. To beat severely. Shak.

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Gold"-beat`en adjective

Definitions

1. Gilded. Obs.

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Gold"-beat`ing noun

Definitions

1. The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

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• adjective satellite remote from populous or much-traveled regions
  out-of-the-way.
  
  • they found a quiet out-of-the-way resort

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Storm"-beat` adjective

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1. Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.

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• adjective satellite damaged by storm
  

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• (Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.

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• (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.

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• to try to find; to search by various means or ways. Addison.

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• to approach a subject circuitously.
• to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; a metaphor taken from hunting.

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• to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. Colloq.

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• to teach or instill, by repetition.

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• to repel or drive back.

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• to extend by hammering.

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• a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South.

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• . (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.

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• to walk; to go on foot.

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• to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.

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• to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.

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• to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.

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• to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.

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• (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; said of a stag.

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• to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise.

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To-beat" transitive verb

Etymology

Pref. to- + beat.

Definitions

1. To beat thoroughly or severely. Obs. Layamon.

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War"-beat`en adjective

Definitions

1. Warworn.

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• adjective satellite tanned and coarsened from being outdoors
  
  • a weather-beaten face
• adjective satellite worn by exposure to the weather
  weathered; weatherworn.
  
  • a house of weathered shingles

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Weath"er-beat`en adjective

Definitions

1. Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.

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Win"ter-beat`en adjective

Definitions

1. Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

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