Definition of beats

The noun beats has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

(a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop))

The noun beat has 10 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)

(a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name")

(the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart")

(the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat")

(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; "he heard the beat of a drum")

((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)

(a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat")

(a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe")

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

The verb beat has 23 senses? (first 11 from tagged texts)

(come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game")

(give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students")

(hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe")

(move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast")

(shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares")

(make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night")

(glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us")

(move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky")

(sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind")

(stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream")

(strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically")

(be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!")

(avoid paying; "beat the subway fare")

(make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight")

(move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping")

(indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm")

(move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement")

(make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest")

(produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum")

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

(beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors")

(be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me

(wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam")