| backbeat | (noun) a loud steady beat | - |
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| beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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| (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
| (noun) a stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
| (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
| (noun) 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 | - |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) hit repeatedly | - |
| (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
| (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
| (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
| (verb) shape by beating | - |
| (verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
| (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
| (verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
| (verb) be superior | - |
| browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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| drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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| (noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
| (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
| heartbeat | (noun) an animating or vital unifying force | - |
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| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| offbeat | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: upbeat |
| upbeat | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, pollyannaish |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: offbeat |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |