beat

1. A stroke; a blow.

   a stroke or blow

2. A pulsation or throb.

   a beat of the heart

   the beat of the pulse

   бие́ниеbijénije, уда́рudár

3. 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.

   Schlag, Grundschlag

   the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

4. A rhythm.

   I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

   Beat, Takt

   разме́рrazmér, ритмritm

   ритмrytm, тактtakt

5. A rhythm.

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

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

7. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.

   Schwebung

   бие́ниеbijénije

   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

8. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

9. An area of a person's responsibility, especially

   (broadly)The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

   to walk the beat

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

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

12. (colloquial, dated)That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

    the beat of him

1. I want to beat that record.

   Я хочу побити цей рекорд. — deniko

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2. Tom will be hard to beat.

   Перемогти Тома буде важко. — deniko

   deTom wird schwer zu schlagen sein. — Waldelfe

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3. Tom doesn't beat around the bush.

   Том не ходить коло та навколо. — deniko

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4. I know I can beat Tom.

   Я знаю, що можу виграти у Тома. — deniko

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5. I didn't beat around the bush.

   Я не став ходити коло та навколо. — deniko

   ruЯ не стал ходить вокруг да около. — marafon

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