Beat vs Accent - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between beat and accent

is that beat is boring while accent is a mark used to represent specific stress on a note.

In archaic terms the difference between beat and accent

is that beat is a low cheat or swindler while accent is utterance.

In transitive terms the difference between beat and accent

is that beat is to indicate by beating or drumming while accent is to mark with written accents.

As an adjective beat

is exhausted.

beat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) beten, from (etyl) ). Compare (etyl) batre, (etyl) battre.

Noun

(en noun)

A stroke; a blow.

* Dryden

He, with a careless beat , / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

A pulsation or throb.

a beat''' of the heart; the '''beat of the pulse

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.

A rhythm.

(music) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

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

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

to walk the beat

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

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

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

''a dead beat

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

Derived terms

* afterbeat * backbeat, back beat * beat the meat * D-beat * deadbeat * downbeat * drumbeat * forebeat * heartbeat * inbeat * misbeat * offbeat * onbeat * outbeat * underbeat * upbeat * walk the beat

Verb

To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.

As soon as she heard that Wiktionary was shutting down, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

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

He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

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

* Bible, Judges xix. 22

The men of the city beat at the door.

* Dryden

Rolling tempests vainly beat below.

* Longfellow

They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.

* Bible, Jonath iv. 8

The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.

* Francis Bacon

Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

* Byron

A thousand hearts beat happily.

To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) 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.

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

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

* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 81:

The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

(transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

(nonstandard)

* 1825? , "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters , page 231:

Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat : that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall

To indicate by beating or drumming.

to beat''' a retreat''; ''to '''beat to quarters

To tread, as a path.

* Blackmore

pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

* John Locke

Why should any one beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?

To be in agitation or doubt.

* Shakespeare

to still my beating mind

To make a sound when struck.

The drums beat .

(military) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

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.

Derived terms

* beat a retreat * beat down * beat off * beater * beat about the bush * beat senseless * beat somebody to the punch * beat some sense into * beat the clock * beat the pants off * beat to quarters * beat up * beat to a pulp * bebeat * forbeat * inbeat * misbeat * overbeat * tobeat * underbeat * wife-beater

Adjective

(en adjective)

(US slang) exhausted

After the long day, she was feeling completely beat .

dilapidated, beat up

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

(gay slang) fabulous

Her makeup was beat!

(slang) boring

(slang, of a person) ugly

Synonyms

* See also

Etymology 2

From (beatnik)

Noun

(en noun)

A beatnik.

Derived terms

* beat generation

References

* DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

Anagrams

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accent

English

(wikipedia accent)

Etymology 1

First attested in the late 14th century. (The "decorative" sense is first attested in 1972.) From (etyl) accent, from (etyl) acent, from (etyl) accentus, formed from ad + with a vowel change.

Noun

(en noun)

(linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.

In the word "careful", the accent is placed on the first syllable.

(figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.

At this hotel, the accent is on luxury.

(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

The name Cézanne is written with an acute accent .

(senseid) Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.

* 1608 , , II-ii

I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which for my part I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to 't.

* 1696 , , "From Celia to Damon", in Poems on Several Occasions

The tender Accent of a Woman's Cry / Will pass unheard, will unregarded die;

(linguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

a foreign accent'''; an American, British or Australian '''accent

A word; a significant tone or sound.

(usually, plural only) Expressions in general; speech.

* Dryden

Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, / Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

(prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

(music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

(music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

(music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.

(music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

(music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.

(mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y'', '''y .

(geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in 12' 27'' , meaning twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.

(engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10'' , meaning six feet ten inches.

Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.

A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.

A distinctive feature or quality.

(archaic) Utterance.

Derived terms

* accent mark * acute accent * grave accent * primary accent * secondary accent * tonic accent

References

* “ Accent, sb.'']” on pages 50–51 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. ?, 1888) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] (1st ed.) * “ accent, n.''” in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)

Etymology 2

From the (etyl) (m), from the (etyl) (m), from the (etyl) , from (m), whence the (etyl) noun (m).

Verb

(en verb)

To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.

To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

To mark with written accents.

References

* “ Accent, v.'']” on page 51/3 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. ?, 1888) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] (1st ed.) * “ accent, v.''” in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989) ----