Beat vs. Stroke

To strike repeatedly.

The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact.

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.

The striking of a bell or gong.

To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.

The sound so produced.

To strike against repeatedly and with force; pound

The time so indicated

To flap (wings, for example).

A sudden action or process having a strong impact or effect

To strike so as to produce music or a signal

A sudden occurrence or result

(Music) To mark or count (time or rhythm), especially with the hands or with a baton.

A sudden severe attack, as of paralysis or sunstroke.

To shape or break by repeated blows; forge

A sudden loss of brain function caused by a blockage or rupture of a blood vessel to the brain, characterized by loss of muscular control, diminution or loss of sensation or consciousness, dizziness, slurred speech, or other symptoms that vary with the extent and severity of the damage to the brain. Also called cerebral accident, cerebrovascular accident.

To make by pounding or trampling

An inspired or effective idea or act

To mix rapidly with a utensil

A single uninterrupted movement, especially when repeated or in a back-and-forth motion

To defeat or subdue, as in a contest.

A keystroke.

To force to withdraw or retreat

Any of a series of movements of a piston from one end of the limit of its motion to another.

To dislodge from a position

A single completed movement of the limbs and body, as in swimming or rowing.

(Informal) To be superior to or better than

The manner or rate of executing such a movement

(Slang) To perplex or baffle

The rower who sits nearest the coxswain or the stern and sets the tempo for the other rowers.

To avoid or counter the effects of, often by thinking ahead; circumvent

The position occupied by this person.

To arrive or finish before (another)

A movement of the upper torso and arms for the purpose of striking a ball, as in golf or tennis.

To deprive, as by craft or ability

The manner of executing such a movement.

(Physics) To cause a reference wave to combine with (a second wave) so that the frequency of the second wave can be studied through time variations in the amplitude of the combination.

A scoring unit in golf counted for such a movement

To inflict repeated blows.

A single mark made by a writing or marking implement, such as a pen.

To pulsate; throb.

The act of making such a mark.

To emit sound when struck

A printed line in a graphic character that resembles such a mark.

To strike a drum.

A distinctive effect or deft touch, as in literary composition.

To flap repeatedly.

A light caressing movement, as of the hand.

To shine or glare intensely

To mark with a single short line.

To fall in torrents

To draw a line through; cancel

To hunt through woods or underbrush in search of game.

(Nautical) To set the pace for (a rowing crew).

(Nautical) To sail upwind by tacking repeatedly.

To hit or propel (a ball, for example) with a smoothly regulated swing.

A stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound or serves as a signal.

To make or perform a stroke.

A pulsation or throb.

(Nautical) To row at a particular rate per minute.

(Physics) A variation in the amplitude of a wave, especially that which results from the superpositioning of two or more waves of different frequencies. When sound waves are combined, the beat is heard as a pulsation in the sound.

To rub lightly with or as if with the hand or something held in the hand; caress.

A steady succession of units of rhythm.

(Informal) To behave attentively or flatteringly toward (someone), especially in order to restore confidence or gain cooperation.

A gesture used by a conductor to indicate such a unit.

An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.

A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse.

An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.

A variable unit of time measuring a pause taken by an actor, as for dramatic effect.

A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.

The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry

An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.

The reporting of a news item obtained ahead of one's competitors.

(ball games) An act of hitting or trying to hit a ball; also, the manner in which this is done.

Often Beat A member of the Beat Generation.

A movement similar to that of hitting.

(Informal) Worn-out; fatigued.

One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.

Often Beat Of or relating to the Beat Generation.

A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.

A stroke; a blow.

(technology) A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.

A pulsation or throb.

(figuratively)

(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.

An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.

A rhythm.

A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.

(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.

An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.

The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

Influence; power.

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

(turn-based games) A masterful or effective action.

(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

(medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.

(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.

That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

(obsolete)

A precinct.

The effect or result of a striking; affliction or injury; a bruise or wound; soreness.

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Chiefly in to have a good stroke: appetite.

(AU) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.

(medicine) A sudden attack of any illness, especially if causing loss of consciousness or movement, or when fatal.

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

(music) A bow or pluck of a string or strings of a stringed instrument; also, the manner in which a musical instrument is played; hence, a melody, a tune.

(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.

(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

(figuratively)

(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.

A beatnik.

A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.

(transitive) To hit; to strike.

(transitive)

(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).

(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

(rare) To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.

To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

(ball games) To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.

(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

(rowing)

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

(swimming) To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.

To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

(obsolete) To depict (something) with a paintbrush.

(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

(intransitive)

To tread, as a path.

(medicine) Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

(swimming) To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.

To make a sound when struck.

To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

(figuratively)

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.

To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.

(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.

To have sexual intercourse.

(agriculture) To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap dialectal, to strip.

To rob.

(masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.

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To sharpen (a knife or other cutting instrument) by honing or rubbing it against a surface.

Exhausted.

(figuratively) To soothe (someone); also, to flatter or indulge (someone).

Dilapidated, beat up.

Struck.

Having impressively attractive makeup.

The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.

(slang) Boring.

The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

Ugly.

The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

Relating to the Beat Generation.

A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.

To punish by blows; to thrash.

Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

A throb or beat, as of the heart.

To tread, as a path.

One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.

A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; - often with out.

The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Power; influence.

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

Appetite.

To baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.

To strike.

To evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.

To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

To make smooth by rubbing.

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

To give a finely fluted surface to.

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.

To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.

To be in agitation or doubt.

(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand;

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

The maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam

To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

A light touch

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; - said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

A light touch with the hands

A stroke; a blow.

The oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew

A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

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.

A mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing)

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.

Any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

A single complete movement

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; - often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, deadbeat.

Touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions;

One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.

Strike a ball with a smooth blow

The act of one that beats a person or thing

Row at a particular rate

The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

Treat gingerly or carefully;

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

A regular route for a sentry or policeman;

The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;

A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

The sound of stroke or blow;

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

A regular rate of repetition;

A stroke or blow;

The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;

Hit repeatedly;

Move rhythmically;

Shape by beating;

Make a rhythmic sound;

Glare or strike with great intensity;

Move with a thrashing motion;

Sail with much tacking or with difficulty;

Stir vigorously;

Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;

Be superior;

Avoid paying;

Make a sound like a clock or a timer;

Move with a flapping motion;

Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;

Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;

Make by pounding or trampling;

Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;

Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

Beat through cleverness and wit;

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

Wear out completely;

Very tired;