beat
英[biːt]
美[bit]
- vt. 打；打败
- vi. 打；打败；拍打；有节奏地舒张与收缩
- n. 拍子；敲击；有规律的一连串敲打
- adj. 筋疲力尽的；疲惫不堪的
- n. (Beat)人名；(德)贝亚特
英英释意
- 1. a regular route for a sentry or policeman;
- "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
- 2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;
- "he could feel the beat of her heart"
- 3. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;
- "the piece has a fast rhythm"
- "the conductor set the beat"
- 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
- 6. the sound of stroke or blow;
- "he heard the beat of a drum"
- 7. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- 8. a regular rate of repetition;
- "the cox raised the beat"
- 9. a stroke or blow;
- "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