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The Meaning of heartbeat
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(noun) an animating or vital unifying force; "New York is the commercial heartbeat of America"
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(noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
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(noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
Synonyms
beatnik
,
instant
,
metre
,
pulse
,
meter
,
impulse
,
beat
,
flash
,
musical rhythm
,
split second
,
round
,
pulsation
,
heart rate
,
wink
,
rhythm
,
measure
,
pulsing
,
jiffy
,
cadence
,
blink of an eye
,
pulse rate
,
trice
,
twinkling
,
nictitation
,
second
,
blinking
,
flashbulb
,
flashgun
,
eye blink
,
minute
,
news bulletin
,
moment
,
photoflash
,
flare
,
winking
,
flash bulb
,
nictation
,
newsbreak
,
flashing
,
newsflash
,
ostentation
,
flash lamp
,
blink
,
fanfare
Rhymes
amit
,
athlete
,
backseat
,
beat
,
beet
,
bittersweet
,
bleat
,
bradstreet
,
breit
,
bridgette
,
browbeat
,
buckwheat
,
bufete
,
cheat
,
cleat
,
cliett
,
compete
,
complete
,
conceit
,
concrete
,
crabmeat
,
crete
,
deadbeat
,
deceit
,
defeat
,
delete
,
deplete
,
discreet
,
discrete
,
downbeat
,
drumbeat
,
eat
,
effete
,
elite
,
excrete
,
feat
,
feet
,
fleet
,
freet
,
gamete
,
gleet
,
greet
,
grete
,
heat
,
incomplete
,
indiscreet
,
jobete
,
keitt
,
kriete
,
lalit
,
lanete
,
leet
,
leete
,
leite
,
longstreet
,
margarete
,
marguerite
,
marquerite
,
meat
,
meet
,
mesquite
,
mete
,
mincemeat
,
mistreat
,
murveit
,
neat
,
neet
,
noncompete
,
obsolete
,
offbeat
,
overeat
,
overheat
,
parakeet
,
peat
,
peet
,
peete
,
pete
,
petite
,
piet
,
piette
,
pleat
,
puneet
,
quiett
,
receipt
,
repeat
,
replete
,
retreat
,
seat
,
secrete
,
sheet
,
shumeet
,
skeat
,
skeet
,
skeete
,
sleet
,
spreadsheet
,
st
,
street
,
suite
,
sweatt
,
sweet
,
swete
,
teat
,
teet
,
threatt
,
threet
,
thweatt
,
treat
,
tweet
,
uncomplete
,
unseat
,
upbeat
,
vanvliet
,
veit
,
vliet
,
wheat
,
worksheet