beat是什么意思

If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.

To beat on, at, or against something means to hit it hard, usually several times or continuously for a period of time.

When your heart or pulse beats, it continually makes regular rhythmic movements.

If you beat a drum or similar instrument, you hit it in order to make a sound. You can also say that a drum beats .

The beat of a piece of music is the main rhythm that it has.

In music, a beat is a unit of measurement. The number of beats in a bar of a piece of music is indicated by two numbers at the beginning of the piece.

If you beat eggs, cream, or butter, you mix them thoroughly using a fork or beater.

When a bird or insect beats its wings or when its wings beat, its wings move up and down.

If you beat someone in a competition or election, you defeat them.

If someone beats a record or achievement, they do better than it.

If you beat something that you are fighting against, for example an organization, a problem, or a disease, you defeat it.

If an attack or an attempt is beaten off or is beaten back, it is stopped, often temporarily.

If you say that one thing beats another, you mean that it is better than it.

If you say you can't beat a particular thing you mean that it is the best thing of its kind.

To beat a time limit or an event means to achieve something before that time or event.

A police officer's or journalist's beat is the area for which he or she is responsible.

You use beat in expressions such as 'It beats me' or 'What beats me is' to indicate that you cannot understand or explain something.

If you tell someone to beat it, you are telling them to go away.

You can say Can you beat it? or Can you beat that? to show that you are surprised and perhaps annoyed about something.

If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do.

If you can't beat them, join them means that, if someone is too strong for you to defeat, it is better to be on the same side as them.

If you say or do something without missing a beat, you continue to speak or do it, even though people might have expected you to hesitate or stop.

If you say that someone never misses a beat, you mean that they always know what is going on and how they can take advantage of it.

A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.

If you beat time to a piece of music, you move your hand or foot up and down in time with the music. A conductor beats time to show the choir or orchestra how fast they should sing or play the music.