pulse
blast beat
stroke
bongo
fist-pumper
anapestic
misbeat
triple time
duple
ruff
thump
pouncingly
musical time
midbeat
drumming
tattooing
ruffle
Adonic
polyrhythm
thrash
a battuta
counterbeat
beat out
belabour
tap out
guajeo
interbeat
rumpty-tumpty
thump out
quadrigeminy
cadence
cadency
roll
kerthump
and
beat
fist pump
paradiddle
Bo Diddley beat
bastinade
rock and roll
drum roll
clave
rubadub
pitter-patter
counterrhythm
bar
measure
pit-a-pat
kerplunk
pitty-pat
pitty-patty
beat it
baby bangs
drumbeat
lick
pulsation
dub
hammer blast
rataplan
bepommel
pulsebeat
palpitate
zarbi
heart rhythm
march to a different beat
gallop
rhythm
lovetap
heterodyne
cardiac rhythm
whumpage
clog dance
metrical
humped
intercadence
pulselike
melodylike
belabor
backbeat
rumblingly
corticiform
Scotch snap
anapestic
duple
Adonic
a battuta
interbeat
rumpty-tumpty
beat
metrical
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melodylike
corticiform
pouncingly
midbeat
pitter-patter
pit-a-pat
pitty-pat
pitty-patty
rumblingly
pulse
blast beat
stroke
fist-pumper
misbeat
triple time
musical time
drumming
tattooing
polyrhythm
thrash
counterbeat
guajeo
quadrigeminy
cadence
cadency
kerthump
and
beat
fist pump
roll
paradiddle
Bo Diddley beat
bastinade
rock and roll
drum roll
clave
rubadub
counterrhythm
bar
measure
kerplunk
ruff
baby bangs
drumbeat
pulsation
midbeat
hammer blast
pulsebeat
zarbi
heart rhythm
gallop
rhythm
lovetap
heterodyne
cardiac rhythm
whumpage
bongo
clog dance
intercadence
backbeat
Scotch snap
bongo
ruff
thump
ruffle
beat out
belabour
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noun
- A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
- The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
- The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
- Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.
- The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
- An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
- A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
- A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.
- A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.
- A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.
- Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”)
- Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
verb
- To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
- To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
- Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
- To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
- To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
- To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
- To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
noun
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
adj
- of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern.
- of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest.
- of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick).
- of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "surdo" drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in a samba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration.
noun
verb
- To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
- Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
- To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
- Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
- To ruffle; to disorder.
- Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
- To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
noun
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
- An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
- Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).
- A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
- Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
- A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
intj
verb
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
noun
noun
verb
- To defeat utterly.
- To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- To beat mercilessly.
- To thresh.
verb
verb
verb
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
noun
conj
- Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
- If; provided that.
- Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
- connecting two well-formed formulas to create a well formed formula that requires the new formula to only be true when each of the two are true.
- Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
- Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
- Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
- Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
- Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
- Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
- Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
- Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
- Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.
verb
noun
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- 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.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- 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.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
adj
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
verb
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- 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.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
noun
- A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
- An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
- Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
- The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
- The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
- A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
verb
noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- the act of preventing
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- a heating element in an electric fire
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
verb
noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
verb
verb
- To beat with repeated blows.
- To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- To do anything partially.
- To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- To lap.
- To perform cunnilingus.
- To stroke with the tongue.
- To overcome.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A small amount; a whit.
- A short motif.
- A stroke or blow.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
verb
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
noun
- An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
- The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
- An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
verb
- To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
- To ride at a galloping pace.
- To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
- To run very fast.
- To progress rapidly through the body.
- To run at a gallop.
- To cause to gallop.
noun
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
noun
noun
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