beat

About 20.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A stroke; a blow.
2. noun A pulsation or throb.

   a beat of the heart

3. noun 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.
4. noun A rhythm.

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

5. noun The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
6. noun The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
7. noun The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
8. noun A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

Similar words

thump trounce beat up flap crush scramble ticktock thrum exhaust cadence

Often followed by

the of him them a me up in her

Word family

Beat Beats beatable beaten beating beatless beats