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beat verb

  /biːt/
  • (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
 lyödä, iskeä, hakata, voittaa, luovia, myrskytä
  • (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
 lyödä, hakata, jyskyttää
  • (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
 jyskyttää, lyödä, sykkiä
  • To make a sound when struck.
 paukkua, päristä
  • To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
 paukuttaa, vatkata
  • (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
 pieksää
  • 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.
 päristä, päristää
  • (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
  • (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
 rummuttaa
  • To tread, as a path.
 tallata
  • (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
 tinkiä
  • To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
 vatkata

beat noun

  /biːt/
  • The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
 huojunta
  • A stroke; a blow.
  • (music) 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.
 isku
  • (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
 ajo
  • (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
 ala
  • The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
 biitti
  • The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
 kierros
  • (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
 kotipaikka
  • (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
 lurjus
  • (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
 paussi
  • A pulsation or throb.
 syke
  • A rhythm.
 tahti
  • (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
 tontti, vastuualue

beat adjective

  /biːt/ , /bɛt/
  • (US, _, slang) Exhausted.
 loppu, puhki, uupunut

beating noun

  /ˈbiːtɪŋ/
  • A heavy defeat or setback.
 löylytys
  • The pulsation of the heart.
 löylytys, selkäsauna, taonta
beat up
antaa turpaan, hakata, saada selkäänsä, haalia, kurittaa, luovia, murehtia, saada valmiiksi, tehdä yllätyshyökkäys, yllättää, teloa
beat it
häipyä, poistua, runkata, tumputtaa
beat around the bush
jaaritella, kierrellä, puhua ummet ja lammet, kiertää kuin kissa kuumaa puuroa
beat to a pulp
hakata tohjoksi, piestä, tuhota
beat one's meat
runkata
beat to the punch
ehtiä ensin
if you can't beat them, join them
jos et voi voittaa heitä, liity heihin
beat someone at their own game
voittaa omassa pelissään
march to the beat of a different drum
kulkea omia polkujaan
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