{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "bit" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/beat.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/beat.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”).\nCompare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“I strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʿ)).", "From Middle English bet (simple past of beten \"to beat\"), from Old English bēot (simple past of bēatan \"to beat\"). Middle English bet would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle beaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read (/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.", "From beatnik, or beat generation." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A stroke; a blow." }, { "mean": "A pulsation or throb.\na beat of the heart\nthe beat of the pulse" }, { "mean": "(music) 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." }, { "mean": "A rhythm.\nI love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!", "submean": [ "(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians." ] }, { "mean": "The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music." }, { "mean": "The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency" }, { "mean": "(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect." }, { "mean": "(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially", "submean": [ "The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.\nto walk the beat\n", "(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).\n" ] }, { "mean": "(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop." }, { "mean": "(colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.\nthe beat of him" }, { "mean": "(dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct." }, { "mean": "(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.", "submean": [ "(Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat." ] }, { "mean": "(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.\na dead beat" }, { "mean": "(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively." }, { "mean": "(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade." }, { "mean": "(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To hit; to strike.\nAs soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.\nSynonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.\nHe danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.\nJan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.\nNo matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.\nI just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting." }, { "mean": "To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.\nBeat the eggs and whip the cream." }, { "mean": "(transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.\nHe wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.\nSynonym: negotiate" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.\nto beat a retreat; to beat to quarters" }, { "mean": "To tread, as a path." }, { "mean": "To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble." }, { "mean": "To be in agitation or doubt." }, { "mean": "To make a sound when struck.\nThe drums beat." }, { "mean": "(military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.\nThe drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters." }, { "mean": "To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.\nHe beat me there.\nThe place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.\nBruv, she came in just as we started to beat.\nSynonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate" }, { "mean": "(transitive, slang) To rob.\n\nHe beat me out of 12 bucks last night." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "simple past tense of beat" }, { "mean": "(especially colloquial) past participle of beat" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(US slang) Exhausted.\nAfter the long day, she was feeling completely beat." }, { "mean": "Dilapidated, beat up.\nDude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys." }, { "mean": "(African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.\nHer face was beat for the gods!" }, { "mean": "(slang) Boring." }, { "mean": "(slang, of a person) Ugly." } ] }, { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Beat" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "beat (plural beats)\n\n A beatnik.\n2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008\nThe beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Relating to the Beat Generation.\nbeat poetry" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued", "(dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle", "(boring): See also Thesaurus:boring", "(ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "" ] } } }