English Dictionary

beat

IPA（発音記号）

/biːt/

名詞

広義 古風 口語 南部アメリカ英語 オーストラリア英語 古語 俗語

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.

日本語の意味

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）

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

オールの一漕ぎごとに、船は勢いよく前に進んだ。

意味（1）

A stroke; a blow.

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

意味（2）

A pulsation or throb.

a beat of the heart

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

A rhythm.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

to walk the beat

意味（10）

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

As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.

意味（11）

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

It's a beat on the whole country.

意味（12）

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

the beat of him

意味（13）

(dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.

意味（14）

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

意味（15）

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

意味（16）

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

a dead beat

意味（17）

(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.

意味（18）

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

意味（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.

beats （ plural ）