| 单词 | beat |
| 释义 | beat (once / 43 pages) 1vn 2v 3vadj 4v 5n 6n 7vn Beat can mean “hit repeatedly,” “stir vigorously,” or “defeat.” A beat can also be a rhythmic pulse, a physical blow, or a funky poet. In terms of number of definitions, it’s hard to beat this little word. Along with its many definitions, beat is featured in a wide variety of idioms. If someone tells you to "beat it," he wants you to go away. If you "beat around the bush," you're not getting to the point. If you "beat the clock," you finish something just in time. One thing beat is not, however, is a nutritious, red root. That's a beet. WORD FAMILYbeat: beatable, beaten, beater, beating, beats+/beatable: unbeatable/beaten: beatenest, unbeaten/beater: beaters/beating: beatings/unbeatable: unbeatably USAGE EXAMPLESThey beat the Tar Heels by 31 last season, which was their most lopsided win in series history. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) S.A.R. wound up beating Frisch, solidifying its status as one of the league’s top teams. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) If you want to be No. 1, beat No. 1. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v hit repeatedly beat on the door beat the table with his shoe Hypo|Hyper full beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening beetlebeat with a beetle bastinadobeat somebody on the soles of the feet coldcock, deck, dump, floor, knock downknock down with force whangbeat with force pastehit with the fists thrash, threshbeat the seeds out of a grain hammerbeat with or as if with a hammer sledge, sledgehammerbeat with a sledgehammer strike deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 2v give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night The teacher used to beat the students Syn|Hypo beat up, work over strong-arm use physical force against soakbeat severely pistol-whipbeat with a pistol belabor, belabourbeat soundly rough uptreat violently flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whipbeat severely with a whip or rod cane, flog, lambast, lambastebeat with a cane kayo, knock cold, knock outknock unconscious or senseless flail, lam, thrash, threshgive a thrashing to; beat hard baste, batter, clobberstrike violently and repeatedly larrup, paddle, spankgive a spanking to; subject to a spanking flagellate, scourgewhip leatherwhip with a leather strap horsewhipwhip with a whip intended for horses switchflog with or as if with a flexible rod cowhideflog with a cowhide catbeat with a cat-o'-nine-tails birchwhip with a birch twig 3v produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly beat the drum Hyper play perform music on (a musical instrument) 4v 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 Hyper strike deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 5v move rhythmically Her heart was beating fast Syn|Hypo|Hyper pound, thump pulsate, pulse, throb expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically flutter, palpitatebeat rapidly thrashbeat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all flapmove noisily move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 6v make a rhythmic sound The drums beat all night Syn|Hyper drum, thrum go, sound make a certain noise or sound 7v move with or as if with a regular alternating motion Syn|Hyper pulsate, quiver pulsate, pulse, throb expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 8v indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks Beat the rhythm Syn|Hypo pound, thump move rhythmically drum, thrummake a rhythmic sound beat out, tap out, thump out beat out a rhythm 9v move with a thrashing motion The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky Syn|Hypo|Hyper flap flap move with a flapping motion flutter flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements bateflap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons clapcause to strike the air in flight displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 10v move with a flapping motion Syn|Hypo|Hyper flap flap move with a thrashing motion flail, thresh move like a flail; thresh about clapstrike the air in flight move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 11v stir vigorously beat the egg whites beat the cream Syn|Hypo|Hyper scramble whip, whisk whip with or as if with a wire whisk creammake creamy by beating agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex change the arrangement or position of 12v glare or strike with great intensity The sun was beating down on us Hyper glare shine intensely 13v make a sound like a clock or a timer the grandfather clock beat midnight Syn|Hyper tick, ticktack, ticktock go, sound make a certain noise or sound 14v shape by beating beat swords into ploughshares Hypo|Hyper forge, hammer create by hammering foliatehammer into thin flat foils dropforgeforge with a dropforge forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work make something, usually for a specific function 15v make by pounding or trampling beat a path through the forest Hyper create, make make or cause to be or to become 16v strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting 17n a stroke or blow the signal was two beats on the steam pipe Hyper stroke a single complete movement 18n the sound of stroke or blow he heard the beat of a drum Hyper sound the sudden occurrence of an audible event 19n a regular rate of repetition the cox raised the beat Hyper pace, rate the relative speed of progress or change 20n the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart he could feel the beat of her heart Syn|Hypo|Hyper heartbeat, pulsation, pulse diastole the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood systolethe contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery pounding, throb, throbbingan instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) extrasystolea premature systole resulting in a momentary cardiac arrhythmia periodic event, recurrent event an event that recurs at intervals 21n the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music the conductor set the beat Syn|Hypo|Hyper musical rhythm, rhythm backbeat a loud steady beat downbeatthe first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) offbeat, upbeatan unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) syncopationa musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat musical time (music) the beat of musical rhythm 22n (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse Syn|Hypo|Hyper cadence, measure, meter, metre catalexis the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse scansionanalysis of verse into metrical patterns common measure, common meterthe usual (iambic) meter of a ballad foot, metrical foot, metrical unit(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm dactyla metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables iamb, iambusa metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables anapaest, anapesta metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables amphibracha metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') trocheea metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables spondeea metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dibrach, pyrrhica metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern (prosody) a system of versification 23n 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 2Hyper oscillation, vibration (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean 1v come out better in a competition, race, or conflict Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship We beat the competition Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach beat through cleverness and wit outpoint, outscore score more points than one's opponents walk overbeat easily eliminateremove from a contest or race mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worstdefeat thoroughly whompbeat overwhelmingly get the best, have the best, overcomeovercome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagledefeat disastrously get the jumpbe there first cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaftdefeat someone through trickery or deceit exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpassbe or do something to a greater degree get over, master, overcome, subdue, surmountget on top of; deal with successfully best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trumpget the better of outfightto fight better than; get the better of overmaster, overpower, overwhelmovercome by superior force checkmate, mateplace an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game immobilise, immobilizemake defenseless outplayexcel or defeat in a game bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrashbeat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreachbeat through cleverness and wit outgrowgrow faster than outcry, outshoutshout louder than outroarroar louder than outsailsail faster or better than outdrawdraw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight outsellsell more than others outsellbe sold more often than other, similar products outpacesurpass in speed better, breaksurpass in excellence outshineattract more attention and praise than others outrangehave a greater range than (another gun) outweighbe heavier than outbravebe braver than out-herodsurpass someone in cruelty or evil outfoxoutdo someone in trickery shamesurpass or beat by a wide margin bulldogthrow a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre, outsmartdefeat by more skillful maneuvering steamroll, steamrolleroverwhelm by using great force outmarchmarch longer distances and for a longer time than outwearlast longer than others defeat, get the better of, overcome win a victory over 2v beat through cleverness and wit I beat the traffic Syn|Hyper circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish come out better in a competition, race, or conflict exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass be or do something to a greater degree 3v be superior Reading beats watching television This sure beats work! Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 4v avoid paying 3beat the subway fare Syn|Hyper bunk cheat, chisel, rip off deprive somebody of something by deceit 1v wear out completely I'm beat Syn|Hypo|Hyper exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up frazzle exhaust physically or emotionally playexhaust by allowing to pull on the line killtire out completely fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress 2adj very tired 4so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere Syn all in, bushed, dead tired depleted of strength or energy v be a mystery or bewildering to 5This beats me! Syn|Hypo|Hyper amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex mix up, stump cause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by defy, refuse, resistelude, especially in a baffling way bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly n a regular route for a sentry, police officer, or reporter 6in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name Syn|Hyper round itinerary, path, route an established line of travel or access n a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior 7Syn|Hyper beatnik nonconformist, recusant someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct 1v sail with much tacking or with difficulty The boat beat in the strong wind Hyper sail travel on water propelled by wind 2n the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing Hyper sailing riding in a sailboat |
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