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noun
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(informal) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited primarily by people speaking Spanish or of Hispanic origin.
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noun
- A pulsation or throb.
- 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.
- A rhythm.
- A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
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The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat.
- In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business, etc.).
- A small part of a dramatic play.
verb (beats, beating, beat, beaten)
- To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
As soon as she heard the news, she went into a rage and the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
He danced hypnotically while she the atabaque.
- To win against; to defeat; to do better than, outdo, or excel someone in a particular, competitive event.
Jessica had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always him.
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(context, intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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To mix food in a rapid fashion. cf. whip.
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
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(gay slang) fabulous
Her makeup was beat!
- exhausted
After the long day, she was feeling completely .
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| beatnik |
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noun (beatniks)
- A young man or woman associated with the Beat Generation.
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| behavior |
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noun
- The way an animal or human behaves or acts.
- The way matter moves.
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proper noun
- The nominal leader of Oceania in w:George Orwell, George Orwell's novel w:Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- By extension, a disparaging name for government surveillance considered to be too intrusive.
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noun (pluralbig sisters)
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A sibling's older sister (used especially by children or by parents in speaking to their children).
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| blackness |
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noun-
The property of being black.
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The of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflext light rather than the absence of black.
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| blight |
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noun
- any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaf, leaves, fruit or other parts
- the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition
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(context, by extension) anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life
verb
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(intransitive) to suffer blight
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(transitive) to cause to suffer blight
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(transitive) to spoil or ruin (something)
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| book burning |
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noun
- The destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, electronic games, the taking of television programs of the air, or the shutting down of Web sites as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
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noun
- Item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- Generically any of "(", ")", "", "", "{", "}", and, in the area of computer languages, "<", ">".
- "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
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(Technical) "" and "" specifically - opposed to the other forms which have their own technical names.
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(sports)
- printed diagram of games in a tournament
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prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes
- one of several ranges of numbers
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tax bracket, age bracket
verb
- To bound on both sides, to surround as enclosing with brackets.
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I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed.
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