beat(n), seedy, time-out, unkempt, dishevelled

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Caption: Battle of Hernani. Romans dishevelled in the first performance of Victor Hugo's Hernani (in February 25, 1830). J.J's caricature. Granville extracted of Jerome Paturot in search of a social position by Louis Reybaud ( 1843). B.N., Prints. 1830 ©Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is." — Jessica Savitch






timeout
or time·out (tīm'out')
n.

1. Sports. A brief cessation of play at the request of a sports team or an official for rest, consultation, or making substitutions.
2. A short break from work or play.
3. 1. A corrective measure or punishment for young children in which they are separated from others for a brief period.
   2. The place, especially a chair, used for such a measure or punishment.

run-down
adj. also run-down (rŭn'doun')

1. 1. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
   2. Dirty and dilapidated: rundown housing projects.
2. Unwound and not running: a run-down watch.

Somewhat disreputable; squalid: a seedy hotel in a run-down neighborhood.


seedy
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Having many seeds.
2. Resembling seeds or a seed.
3. Worn and shabby; unkempt: "He was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin" (Mark Twain).
4. Tired or sick; unwell.
5. Somewhat disreputable; squalid: a seedy hotel in a run-down neighborhood.

seedily seed'i·ly adv.
seediness seed'i·ness n.

unkempt

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkɛm(p)t/

Definition of unkempt

adjective

• (especially of a person) having an untidy or dishevelled appearance:they were unwashed and unkempt

Derivatives

unkemptly
adverb

unkemptness
noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from un-¹ 'not' + kempt 'combed' (past participle of archaic kemb, related to comb)

dishevelled 

Pronunciation: /dɪˈʃɛv(ə)ld/ 

(US disheveled)

ADJECTIVE

(Of a person’s hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy; disordered:a man with long dishevelled hair

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Derivatives

dishevelment

Pronunciation: /dɪˈʃɛv(ə)lm(ə)nt/  

NOUN

Example sentences

Origin

Late Middle English: from obsolete dishevely, from Old French deschevele, past participle ofdescheveler (based on chevel 'hair', from Latin capillus). The original sense was 'having the hair uncovered'; later, referring to the hair itself, 'hanging loose', hence 'disordered, untidy'. Compare with unkempt.

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• In the past, when no respectable man or woman would dream of going out without a hat, headscarf, or similar head covering, anyone seen bare-headed would be regarded as very scruffy and dishevelled. The word comes from Old French chevel ‘hair’, from Latin capillus, the source also of capillary (mid 17th century). The original sense was ‘having the hair uncovered’, then, referring to the hair itself, ‘hanging loose’, hence ‘disordered, untidy’. See unkempt

dishevelled

1. 《形容詞》(1)（髪などが）乱れた，ぼさぼさの，くしを入れていない (2)（身なりなどが）だらしない；（演劇などが）まとまりが悪い ※disheveledとも

beat

1. 1. The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry: television's culture beat.
   2. The reporting of a news item obtained ahead of one's competitors.
      ━━[名]
      1 打つこと, 殴打, 激打；一打ち(stroke).
      2 （太鼓などを）打つ音；（波などが）ぶつかる音；（心臓の）鼓動, 脈拍；（時計の）時を刻む音
      

      the beat of horse's hoofs
      馬のひづめのカッカッと鳴る音

      the beat of the hail on the window
      窓にぶつかるあられの音.
      3 （警官・夜番などの）巡回（区域）；（配達人の）受け持ち区域；専門分野, 本領
      

      a policeman's beat
      警官の巡回区域

      a cop on ［off］ the beat
      巡回中［非番］の警官

      pound the beat
      ((略式))（警官が）警ら［巡回パトロール］する.
      4
      (1) 《音楽》拍, 拍子, ビート；ビートのきいた音楽
      

      without missing a beat
      調子を全然くずさずに.

      (2) （指揮棒などの）一振り(stroke).
      (3) 《物理学》（振動の）うなり.
      5 （台本用語で）間(ま), 呼吸.
      6 《韻文》（詩脚の）強音.
      7
      (1) スクープ；特種. ⇒SCOOP[名]3
      (2) （記者の）受け持ち範囲, 報道領域.
      8 ((しばしばB-))((略式))＝beatnik.
      9 ((the 〜))((俗))（…に）まさるもの, しのぐもの((of ...))
      

      I have never seen the beat of her for elegance.
      彼女ほど上品な人を見たことがない.
      10 ((俗))ろくでなし, 浮浪者.
      get a beat on ...