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Results for: "beat"

Translating from English to Welsh

Translations:

beat — to hit, to knock, to pound, to strike
→ baeddu
→ taro
beat — to win against
→ curo
beat — to strike or pound repeatedly
→ curo
→ pwnio

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (10)

1. a regular route for a sentry or policeman;
- Example: "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
[syn: beat, round]

2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;
- Example: "he could feel the beat of her heart"
[syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat]

3. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;
- Example: "the piece has a fast rhythm"
- Example: "the conductor set the beat"
[syn: rhythm, beat, musical rhythm]

4. 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;

5. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior;
[syn: beatnik, beat]

6. the sound of stroke or blow;
- Example: "he heard the beat of a drum"

7. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse;
[syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence]

8. a regular rate of repetition;
- Example: "the cox raised the beat"

9. a stroke or blow;
- Example: "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"

10. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing;


VERB (23)

1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
- Example: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"
- Example: "We beat the competition"
- Example: "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
[syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish]

2. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;
- Example: "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"
- Example: "The teacher used to beat the students"
[syn: beat, beat up, work over]

3. hit repeatedly;
- Example: "beat on the door"
- Example: "beat the table with his shoe"

4. move rhythmically;
- Example: "Her heart was beating fast"
[syn: beat, pound, thump]

5. shape by beating;
- Example: "beat swords into ploughshares"

6. make a rhythmic sound;
- Example: "Rain drummed against the windshield"
- Example: "The drums beat all night"
[syn: drum, beat, thrum]

7. glare or strike with great intensity;
- Example: "The sun was beating down on us"

8. move with a thrashing motion;
- Example: "The bird flapped its wings"
- Example: "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
[syn: beat, flap]

9. sail with much tacking or with difficulty;
- Example: "The boat beat in the strong wind"

10. stir vigorously;
- Example: "beat the egg whites"
- Example: "beat the cream"
[syn: beat, scramble]

11. strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;
- Example: "beat one's breast"
- Example: "beat one's foot rhythmically"

12. be superior;
- Example: "Reading beats watching television"
- Example: "This sure beats work!"

13. avoid paying;
- Example: "beat the subway fare"
[syn: beat, bunk]

14. make a sound like a clock or a timer;
- Example: "the clocks were ticking"
- Example: "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
[syn: tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat]

15. move with a flapping motion;
- Example: "The bird's wings were flapping"
[syn: beat, flap]

16. indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
- Example: "Beat the rhythm"

17. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
- Example: "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
[syn: pulsate, beat, quiver]

18. make by pounding or trampling;
- Example: "beat a path through the forest"

19. produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;
- Example: "beat the drum"

20. strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting;

21. beat through cleverness and wit;
- Example: "I beat the traffic"
- Example: "She outfoxed her competitors"
[syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent]

22. be a mystery or bewildering to;
- Example: "This beats me!"
- Example: "Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- Example: "a vexing problem"
- Example: "This question really stuck me"
[syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]

23. wear out completely;
- Example: "This kind of work exhausts me"
- Example: "I'm beat"
- Example: "He was all washed up after the exam"
[syn: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. very tired;
- Example: "was all in at the end of the day"
- Example: "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"
- Example: "bushed after all that exercise"
- Example: "I'm dead after that long trip"
[syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]