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They beat us 14 to 3. She beat the old record by three seconds. Someone else beat her out for the job. Years of failure had beaten him down. I was going to make the suggestion, but she beat me to it. I …

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BEAT definition: 1. to defeat or do better than: 2. to be better or more enjoyable than another activity or…. Learn more.

So "off-beat" is a musical term, commonly applied to syncopation, that emphasizes the weak even beats of a bar, as opposed to the usual on-beat. This is a fundamental technique of African polyrhythm that …

Define beat. beat synonyms, beat pronunciation, beat translation, English dictionary definition of beat. strike repeatedly; vanquish; sound a signal: beat a drum; a rhythmical unit of time: The metronome …

Former King Crimson members ADRIAN BELEW and TONY LEVIN band together with guitar virtuoso STEVE VAI and explosive Tool drummer DANNY CAREY for the first time to create BEAT, a creative …

If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. My sister tried to stop them and they beat her. [VERB noun]

4 days ago · Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. A rhythm. I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm! (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to …

Beat, in music, the basic rhythmic unit of a measure, or bar, not to be confused with rhythm as such; nor is the beat necessarily identical with the underlying pulse of a given piece of music, which may …