Beat
(imp.) of Beat |
Beat
(p. p.) of Beat |
Beat
(v. t.) To strike repeatedly |
Beat
(v. t.) To punish by blows |
Beat
(v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. |
Beat
(v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. |
Beat
(v. t.) To tread, as a path. |
Beat
(v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc. |
Beat
(v. t.) To cheat |
Beat
(v. t.) To exercise severely |
Beat
(v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum |
Beat
(v. i.) To strike repeatedly |
Beat
(v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing. |
Beat
(v. i.) To come or act with violence |
Beat
(v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. |
Beat
(v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. |
Beat
(v. i.) To make a sound when struck |
Beat
(v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum |
Beat
(v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect |
Beat
(n.) A stroke |
Beat
(n.) A recurring stroke |
Beat
(n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time |
Beat
(n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. |
Beat
(n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations |
Beat
(v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over |
Beat
(v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort. |
Beat
(v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade |
Beat
(a.) Weary |
Dead beat
() See Beat, n., 7. |
Double-beat valve
() See under Valve. |
Dry-beat
(v. t.) To beat severely. |
Floor
(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room |
Floor
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. |
Floor
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel |
Floor
(n.) A story of a building. See Story. |
Floor
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members. |
Floor
(n.) The right to speak. |
Floor
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. |
Floor
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. |
Floor
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body. |
Floor
(v. t.) To cover with a floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of |
Storm-beat
(a.) Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. |
Tattoo
(n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp. |
Tattoo
(v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out. |
Tattoo
(n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures |
To-beat
(v. t.) To beat thoroughly or severely. |
| tattoo | the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining |
| beat | the act of beating to windward, sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing |
cabaret
floorshow
floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
| beat | a stroke or blow, the signal was two beats on the steam pipe |
| dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
floor
flooring | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure), they needed rugs to cover the bare floors, we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
| floor trading floor | a large room in a exchange where the trading is done, he is a floor trader |
| floor | the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business, there was a motion from the floor |
floorboard
floor board | a board in the floor |
floor cover
floor covering | a covering for a floor |
| floor joist | joist that supports a floor |
| floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
| floor plan | scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level, contrasts with elevation |
fly gallery
fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
ground floor
first floor
ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building |
mezzanine
mezzanine floor
entresol | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
| parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
| shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
| tattoo | a design on the skin made by tattooing |
| threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
| beat | a regular rate of repetition, the cox raised the beat |
| floor | the parliamentary right to address an assembly, the chairman granted him the floor |
| privilege of the floor | the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session |
floor
base | a lower limit, the government established a wage floor |
| price floor | floor below which prices are not allowed to fall, the government used price supports to maintain the price floor |
| wage floor | floor below which wages are not allowed to fall |
| tattoo | a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters |
rhythm beat
musical rhythm | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music, the piece has a fast rhythm, the conductor set the beat |
meter
metre
measure beat cadence | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
| ground floor | becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage), he got in on the ground floor |
| beat | the sound of stroke or blow, he heard the beat of a drum |
pulse
pulsation heartbeat
beat | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart, he could feel the beat of her heart |
| floor | the occupants of a floor, the whole floor complained about the lack of heat |
beat generation
beats
beatniks | a United States youth subculture of the s, rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress, for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism, favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) |
beat
round | a regular route for a sentry or policeman, in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name |
| floor | the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water |
| floor | the ground on which people and animals move about, the fire spared the forest floor |
| floor | the lower inside surface of any hollow structure, the floor of the pelvis, the floor of the cave |
ocean floor
sea floor
ocean bottom
seabed
sea bottom
Davy Jones's locker
Davy Jones | the bottom of a sea or ocean |
beatnik
beat | a member of the beat generation, a nonconformist in dress and behavior |
| floor leader | the legislator who organizes his party's strategy |
| beat | 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 |
| floor wax | a preparation containing wax and used to polish and preserve the finish of floors |
exhaust
wash up beat
tucker
tucker out | wear out completely, This kind of work exhausts me, I'm beat, He was all washed up after the exam |
hammer in
drill in
ram down
beat in | teach by drills and repetition |
perplex
vex stick
get a puzzle
mystify
baffle
beat
pose bewilder
flummox
stupefy
nonplus
gravel
amaze dumbfound
ca | 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 |
cast about
beat about
cast around | search anxiously |
beat around the bush
equivocate
tergiversate prevaricate
palter | be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information |
| take the floor | rise in order to make a speech or motion |