beat

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(noun): A stroke; a blow.
(noun): A pulsation or throb.
(noun): 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.
(noun): A rhythm.
(noun): The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
(noun): (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
(noun): The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
(noun): (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
(noun): An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
(noun): That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
(noun): A precinct.
(noun): A place of habitual or frequent resort.
(noun): A low cheat or swindler.
(noun): The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
(noun): The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
(noun): A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
(verb): To hit; strike
(verb): To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
(verb): To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
(verb): To move with pulsation or throbbing.
(verb): To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
(verb): To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
(verb): To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
(verb): To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
(verb): (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
(verb): To indicate by beating or drumming.
(verb): To tread, as a path.
(verb): To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
(verb): To be in agitation or doubt.
(verb): To make a sound when struck.
(verb): To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
(verb): To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
(verb): To arrive at a place before someone.
(verb): To have sexual intercourse.
(verb): To rob.
(adjective): Exhausted
(adjective): Dilapidated, beat up
(adjective): Fabulous
(adjective): Boring
(adjective): (of a person) ugly

a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
the beat of him
a dead beat
As 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.
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

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negotiate