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A stroke; a blow. / A pulsation or throb. / (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. / A rhythm.

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Source Word

beat

IPA(Pronunciation)

/biːt/

Noun

broadly dated colloquial Southern-US Australia archaic slang

A stroke; a blow. / A pulsation or throb. / (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. / A rhythm.

Japanese Meaning

打撃（物体が他の物体に当たる衝撃） / 鼓動（心臓や脈の動きによる脈打ち） / 拍（音楽における基本の時間単位、単位拍） / リズム（音楽の節奏や調子）

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With every beat of the oar, the boat surged forward.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

オールの一漕ぎごとに、船は勢いよく前に進んだ。

Sense（1）

A stroke; a blow.

He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

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Sense（2）

A pulsation or throb.

a beat of the heart

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(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.

Sense（4）

A rhythm.

Sense（5）

(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.

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The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

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The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

Sense（8）

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

Sense（9）

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

to walk the beat

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Sense（10）

(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

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(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

It's a beat on the whole country.

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Sense（12）

(colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

the beat of him

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Sense（13）

(dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.

Sense（14）

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Sense（15）

(Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.

Sense（16）

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

a dead beat

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Sense（18）

(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Sense（19）

(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

She made sure to give fans all the details about her beat in the caption.

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beats

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