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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

counterbeat en · NOUN

Etymology

From counter- + beat.

Meanings

  1. A beat that runs counter to another.
    • At the same time there’s a counterbeat of tension. 2009 March 20, Holland Cotter, “Cutting Modernism’s Big Cube Down to Size”, in New York Times:

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