beat

CEFRB1

/biːt/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    A pulsation or throb.

Examples

  • I beat him completely in the debate.

  • We beat about for a solution to the problem.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /bɛt/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meaning

  1. 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.

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A stroke; a blow.

  2. A rhythm.

More examples

In context

  • I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

  • He won't beat me.

  • a beat of the heart

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

Cognate with Dutch boten, botten, butten (“to push, strike”), German boßen (“to thrash”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*bautan, “to beat, strike”) (whence, probably, Galician and Portuguese botar (“to expel; to throw”)); also Latin fūstis (“club, cudgel, knobbed stick, staff”), *fūtō (“to strike”), Albanian bahe, hobe (“sling”), Armenian բութ (butʻ), բույթ (buytʻ, “thumb”).