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Beat vs. Stroke

Beat and Stroke Definitions

Beat

To strike repeatedly.

Stroke

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

Beat

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.

Stroke

The striking of a bell or gong.

Beat

To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.

Stroke

The sound so produced.
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Beat

To strike against repeatedly and with force; pound
Waves beating the shore.

Stroke

The time so indicated
At the stroke of midnight.

Beat

To flap (wings, for example).

Stroke

A sudden action or process having a strong impact or effect
A stroke of lightning.

Beat

To strike so as to produce music or a signal
Beat a drum.

Stroke

A sudden occurrence or result
A stroke of luck.
A stroke of misfortune.
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Beat

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

Stroke

A sudden severe attack, as of paralysis or sunstroke.

Beat

To shape or break by repeated blows; forge
Beat the glowing metal into a dagger.

Stroke

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.

Beat

To make by pounding or trampling
Beat a path through the jungle.

Stroke

An inspired or effective idea or act
A stroke of genius.
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Beat

To mix rapidly with a utensil
Beat two eggs in a bowl.

Stroke

A single uninterrupted movement, especially when repeated or in a back-and-forth motion
The stroke of a pendulum.

Beat

To defeat or subdue, as in a contest.

Stroke

A keystroke.

Beat

To force to withdraw or retreat
Beat back the enemy.

Stroke

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

Beat

To dislodge from a position
I beat him down to a lower price.

Stroke

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

Beat

(Informal) To be superior to or better than
Riding beats walking.

Stroke

The manner or rate of executing such a movement
My favorite stroke is butterfly. She had a very rapid stroke.

Beat

(Slang) To perplex or baffle
It beats me.
I don't know the answer.

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

The position occupied by this person.

Beat

To arrive or finish before (another)
We beat you home by five minutes.

Stroke

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

Beat

To deprive, as by craft or ability
He beat me out of 20 dollars with his latest scheme.

Stroke

The manner of executing such a movement.

Beat

(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.

Stroke

A scoring unit in golf counted for such a movement
Finished six strokes under par.

Beat

To inflict repeated blows.

Stroke

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

Beat

To pulsate; throb.

Stroke

The act of making such a mark.

Beat

To emit sound when struck
The gong beat thunderously.

Stroke

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

Beat

To strike a drum.

Stroke

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

Beat

To flap repeatedly.

Stroke

A light caressing movement, as of the hand.

Beat

To shine or glare intensely
The sun beat down on us all day.

Stroke

To mark with a single short line.

Beat

To fall in torrents
The rain beat on the roof.

Stroke

To draw a line through; cancel
Stroked out the last sentence.

Beat

To hunt through woods or underbrush in search of game.

Stroke

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

Beat

(Nautical) To sail upwind by tacking repeatedly.

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

To make or perform a stroke.

Beat

A pulsation or throb.

Stroke

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

Beat

(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.

Stroke

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

Beat

A steady succession of units of rhythm.

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
A stroke on the chin

Beat

A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse.

Stroke

An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry
Television's culture beat.

Stroke

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.
On the stroke of midnight

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

Often Beat A member of the Beat Generation.

Stroke

A movement similar to that of hitting.

Beat

(Informal) Worn-out; fatigued.

Stroke

One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
The stroke of a bird’s wing in flying

Beat

Often Beat Of or relating to the Beat Generation.

Stroke

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

Beat

A stroke; a blow.

Stroke

(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.

Beat

A pulsation or throb.
A beat of the heart
The beat of the pulse

Stroke

(figuratively)

Beat

(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.

Stroke

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

Beat

A rhythm.
I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

Stroke

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.

Beat

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

Stroke

A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
To give some finishing strokes to an essay

Beat

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

Stroke

Influence; power.

Beat

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
To walk the beat

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker.

Beat

That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
The beat of him

Stroke

(obsolete)

Beat

A precinct.

Stroke

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

Beat

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Stroke

Chiefly in to have a good stroke: appetite.

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
A dead beat

Stroke

(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.

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

(figuratively)

Beat

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

Stroke

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.

Beat

A beatnik.

Stroke

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

Beat

(transitive) To hit; to strike.
As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

Stroke

(transitive)

Beat

(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

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.

Beat

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

Stroke

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

Beat

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

(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.

Beat

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

Stroke

(rowing)

Beat

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

Stroke

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

Beat

To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

Stroke

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

Beat

(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
To beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

Stroke

(intransitive)

Beat

To tread, as a path.

Stroke

(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).

Beat

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Stroke

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

Beat

To be in agitation or doubt.

Stroke

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.

Beat

To make a sound when struck.
The drums beat.

Stroke

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

Beat

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

Stroke

(figuratively)

Beat

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.

Stroke

To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.

Beat

(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
He beat me there.
The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.

Stroke

To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.

Beat

To have sexual intercourse.
Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

Stroke

(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.

Beat

To rob.
He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

Stroke

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

Beat

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Stroke

(obsolete)

Beat

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Stroke

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

Beat

Exhausted.
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

Stroke

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

Beat

Dilapidated, beat up.
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.

Stroke

Struck.

Beat

Having impressively attractive makeup.
Her face was beat for the gods!

Stroke

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.
His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree.
A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes.
He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke.

Beat

(slang) Boring.

Stroke

The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Beat

Ugly.

Stroke

The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
Well, but what's o'clock?- Upon the stroke of ten. - Well, let is strike.

Beat

Relating to the Beat Generation.
Beat poetry

Stroke

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

Beat

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.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
They did beat the gold into thin plates.

Stroke

A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
O, lasting as those colors may they shine,Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.

Beat

To punish by blows; to thrash.

Stroke

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

Beat

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.

Stroke

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.
At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.

Beat

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.

Stroke

A throb or beat, as of the heart.

Beat

To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.

Stroke

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.

Beat

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that.

Stroke

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.

Beat

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

Stroke

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.

Beat

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?

Stroke

Power; influence.
He has a great stroke with the reader.

Beat

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.

Stroke

Appetite.
The oars where silver,Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.

Beat

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

Stroke

To strike.
Ye mote with the plat sword againStroken him in the wound, and it will close.

Beat

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.

Stroke

To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind,He stroked her cheeks.

Beat

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
The men of the city . . . beat at the door.

Stroke

To make smooth by rubbing.

Beat

To move with pulsation or throbbing.
A thousand hearts beat happily.

Stroke

To give a finely fluted surface to.

Beat

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.
Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below.
They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.
The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.
Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.

Stroke

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

Beat

To be in agitation or doubt.
To still my beating mind.

Stroke

(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand;
It took two strokes to get out of the bunker
A good shot require good balance and tempo
He left me an almost impossible shot

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

A light touch

Beat

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.

Stroke

A light touch with the hands

Beat

A stroke; a blow.
He, with a careless beat,Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

Stroke

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

Beat

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

Stroke

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

Beat

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.

Stroke

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

Beat

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.

Stroke

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

Beat

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Stroke

A single complete movement

Beat

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

Stroke

Touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions;
He stroked his long beard

Beat

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

Stroke

Strike a ball with a smooth blow

Beat

The act of one that beats a person or thing
It's a beat on the whole country.

Stroke

Row at a particular rate

Beat

The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.

Stroke

Treat gingerly or carefully;
You have to stroke the boss

Beat

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Beat

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed.

Beat

A regular route for a sentry or policeman;
In the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name

Beat

The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;
He could feel the beat of her heart

Beat

The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;
The piece has a fast rhythm
The conductor set the beat

Beat

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

Beat

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

Beat

The sound of stroke or blow;
He heard the beat of a drum

Beat

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Beat

A regular rate of repetition;
The cox raised the beat

Beat

A stroke or blow;
The signal was two beats on the steam pipe

Beat

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

Beat

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
We beat the competition
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

Beat

Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;
Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
The teacher used to beat the students

Beat

Hit repeatedly;
Beat on the door
Beat the table with his shoe

Beat

Move rhythmically;
Her heart was beating fast

Beat

Shape by beating;
Beat swords into ploughshares

Beat

Make a rhythmic sound;
Rain drummed against the windshield
The drums beat all night

Beat

Glare or strike with great intensity;
The sun was beating down on us

Beat

Move with a thrashing motion;
The bird flapped its wings
The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky

Beat

Sail with much tacking or with difficulty;
The boat beat in the strong wind

Beat

Stir vigorously;
Beat the egg whites
Beat the cream

Beat

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

Beat

Be superior;
Reading beats watching television
This sure beats work!

Beat

Avoid paying;
Beat the subway fare

Beat

Make a sound like a clock or a timer;
The clocks were ticking
The grandfather clock beat midnight

Beat

Move with a flapping motion;
The bird's wings were flapping

Beat

Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
Beat the rhythm

Beat

Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
The city pulsated with music and excitement

Beat

Make by pounding or trampling;
Beat a path through the forest

Beat

Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;
Beat the drum

Beat

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

Beat

Beat through cleverness and wit;
I beat the traffic
She outfoxed her competitors

Beat

Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me

Beat

Wear out completely;
This kind of work exhausts me
I'm beat
He was all washed up after the exam

Beat

Very tired;
Was all in at the end of the day
So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
Bushed after all that exercise
I'm dead after that long trip

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