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deadbeat 音标拼音: [d'ɛdb ,it] a. 速示的,不振荡的,非周期的,非调谐的 速示的,不振荡的,非周期的,非调谐的 deadbeat n 1: someone who fails to meet a financial obligation [ synonym: { defaulter}, { deadbeat}] dead beat \ dead` beat"\ ( d[ e^] d` b[= e] t"), deadbeat\ dead" beat`\( d[ e^] d" b[= e] t`). a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as { Beat}, n., 7. [ Low, U. S.] [ 1913 Webster]
Deadbeat \ Dead" beat`\, a. ( Physics) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. [ 1913 Webster] { Deadbeat escapement}. See under { Escapement}. [ 1913 Webster]
Beat \ Beat\, n. 1. A stroke; a blow. [ 1913 Webster] He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Mus.) ( a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. ( b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re[" e] nforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See { Beat}, v. i., 8. [ 1913 Webster] 5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman' s beat; analogously, for newspaper reporters, the subject or territory that they are assigned to cover; as, the Washington beat. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 6. A place of habitual or frequent resort. [ 1913 Webster] 7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, { deadbeat}. [ Low] [ 1913 Webster] { Beat of drum} ( Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. { Beat of a watch}, or { Beat of a clock}, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the stroke is at equal or unequal intervals. [ 1913 Webster]
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