beat
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- noun
- /biĖt/
- Every beat of your heart.
- a steady beat
- beat and rhythm
- keep the beat
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Watch on YouTubeYou were the words, you were the beat, the melody, the song.
- You were the words, you were the beat, the melody, the song.
- That sounds amazing over a hip hop beat, pop, R&B;, chords.
- Nice to have a little beat to get you through something.
- With stand alone, the beats are always the same.
- So let's see if I have perfect beat matching and selection.
- And I love that beat and I love those rhymes.
- There are words accompanying the melodies, There are beats, rhythms.
- We're measuring how much today's beat beat the last beat.
- I don't know, like the beats like bitch what?
Examples
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The focus of this lesson is a steady beat with an introduction to timbre.
Academic text (2015) -
Parents were encouraged to lightly bounce their infants to the beat while the others clapped.
Academic text (2015) -
Strong beat, strong beat, strong beat, strong, weak.
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You were the words, you were the beat, the melody, the song.
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His playing improved as his efforts to listen and find the beat of the music were encouraged.
Academic text (2011) -
The student should keep a quarter-note pulse through hand gestures, tapping the beat, clapping, or conducting.
Academic text (2013) -
The musician set a captivating beat that had everyone dancing.
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To play this song correctly, you need to keep the beat steady throughout.
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In poetry, the rhythm can create a powerful beat that enhances the meaning.
Synonyms
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A regular pattern of sounds and movements, often in music or dance
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A regular pattern of sounds like speech or marching
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1.6
A repeated sound made by hitting a drum
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4.1
A strong repeated beat you can hear or feel
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3.4
A regular rhythm from drums that marks time and creates a mood
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A regular pattern of strong and weak syllables in a poem
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A regular pattern of beats in a song or dance that gives music its timing
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A pattern of notes where each note has a set length based on a beat, without regular strong beats
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A steady beat in music you can feel in your body or emotions
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A steady beat that gives the basic timing in music or poems
Idioms
- Offensive
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Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt or win against them very clearly
- Informal
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To feel your heart stop for a moment because you are suddenly excited or scared
- Informal
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Push away a lot of people or fans as a joke about being too popular
- Offensive
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To touch your own private parts to make yourself sexually excited
- Literature
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To change weapons into tools for peaceful work like farming
Compounds
- NSFW
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A group of American writers and artists from the 1950s who reject social rules and choose free creative lives
- Archaic
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4.0
A style of pop rock from 1960s Britain with strong rhythms and simple melodies
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Etymology
Beat for a regular rhythm comes from the idea of 'striking' a steady sound, like hitting a drum with each pulse. So a beat is the regular 'pulse' or strike you hear in music or movement.