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come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" drum: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" tick: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" rhythm: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" 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 pulsate: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" beatnik: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" meter: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" outwit: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing exhaust: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" all in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
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| bead |
a small ball with a hole through the middle form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown" drop: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" string together like beads beading: a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
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| Beadle |
a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
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| beaded lizard |
lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico
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| bearberry |
Bearberries are three species of dwarf shrubs in the genus Arctostaphylos. Unlike the other species of Arctostaphylos (see Manzanita), they are adapted to arctic and sub-arctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe, one with a small highly disjunct population in Central America. The name bearberry derives from the edible fruit, said to be greatly enjoyed by bears. Other names include Kinnikinnick and Mealberry. ...
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