Beat vs. Bet

To strike repeatedly.

An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.

An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake

To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.

One on which a stake is or can be placed

To strike against repeatedly and with force; pound

A plan or an option considered with regard to its probable consequence

To flap (wings, for example).

(Informal) A view or opinion, especially about something that cannot be known at the present time

To strike so as to produce music or a signal

To stake (an amount, for example) in a bet.

(Music) To mark or count (time or rhythm), especially with the hands or with a baton.

To make a bet with

To shape or break by repeated blows; forge

To make a bet on (a contestant or an outcome).

To make by pounding or trampling

To maintain confidently, as if making a bet

To mix rapidly with a utensil

To make or place a bet.

To defeat or subdue, as in a contest.

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

To force to withdraw or retreat

A candidate (for elections and pageants).

To dislodge from a position

A degree of certainty.

(Informal) To be superior to or better than

Alternative form of beth

(Slang) To perplex or baffle

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

To avoid or counter the effects of, often by thinking ahead; circumvent

To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

To arrive or finish before (another)

(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

To deprive, as by craft or ability

(knitting) between

(Physics) To cause a reference wave to combine with (a second wave) so that the frequency of the second wave can be studied through time variations in the amplitude of the combination.

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

To inflict repeated blows.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

To pulsate; throb.

An early form of Better.

To emit sound when struck

The money risked on a gamble

To strike a drum.

The act of gambling;

To flap repeatedly.

Maintain with or as if with a bet;

To shine or glare intensely

Stake on the outcome of an issue;

To fall in torrents

Have faith or confidence in;

To hunt through woods or underbrush in search of game.

(Nautical) To sail upwind by tacking repeatedly.

A stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound or serves as a signal.

A pulsation or throb.

(Physics) A variation in the amplitude of a wave, especially that which results from the superpositioning of two or more waves of different frequencies. When sound waves are combined, the beat is heard as a pulsation in the sound.

A steady succession of units of rhythm.

A gesture used by a conductor to indicate such a unit.

A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse.

A variable unit of time measuring a pause taken by an actor, as for dramatic effect.

The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry

The reporting of a news item obtained ahead of one's competitors.

Often Beat A member of the Beat Generation.

(Informal) Worn-out; fatigued.

Often Beat Of or relating to the Beat Generation.

A stroke; a blow.

A pulsation or throb.

(music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

A rhythm.

(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.

The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

A precinct.

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(AU) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

A beatnik.

(transitive) To hit; to strike.

(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

To tread, as a path.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To make a sound when struck.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.

(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

To have sexual intercourse.

To rob.

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Exhausted.

Dilapidated, beat up.

Having impressively attractive makeup.

(slang) Boring.

Ugly.

Relating to the Beat Generation.

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

To punish by blows; to thrash.

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

To tread, as a path.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; - often with out.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

To baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.

To evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; - said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

A stroke; a blow.

A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat; analogously, for newspaper reporters, the subject or territory that they are assigned to cover; as, the Washington beat.

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; - often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, deadbeat.

One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.

The act of one that beats a person or thing

The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

A regular route for a sentry or policeman;

The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;

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

A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

The sound of stroke or blow;

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

A regular rate of repetition;

A stroke or blow;

The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;

Hit repeatedly;

Move rhythmically;

Shape by beating;

Make a rhythmic sound;

Glare or strike with great intensity;

Move with a thrashing motion;

Sail with much tacking or with difficulty;

Stir vigorously;

Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;

Be superior;

Avoid paying;

Make a sound like a clock or a timer;

Move with a flapping motion;

Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;

Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;

Make by pounding or trampling;

Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;

Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

Beat through cleverness and wit;

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

Wear out completely;

Very tired;