Attack vs Beat - What's the difference?
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An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
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(cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
(volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
(lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
The sudden onset of a disease.
An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
(music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
(audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
To apply violent force to someone or something.
To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar ).
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To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
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* B. Stewart
To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
(cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
(cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
(cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
(soccer) To move forward in an attempt to actively score point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
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A stroke; a blow.
* Dryden
A pulsation or throb.
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.
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(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.
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
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To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
* Bible, Judges xix. 22
* Dryden
* Longfellow
* Bible, Jonath iv. 8
* Francis Bacon
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
* Byron
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
(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:
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
(transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
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To indicate by beating or drumming.
To tread, as a path.
* Blackmore
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
* John Locke
To be in agitation or doubt.
* Shakespeare
To make a sound when struck.
(military) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
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.
(US slang) exhausted
dilapidated, beat up
(gay slang) fabulous
(slang) boring
(slang, of a person) ugly
In lang=en terms the difference between attack and beat
is that attack is the amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack) while beat is boring.In transitive terms the difference between attack and beat
is that attack is to deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon while beat is to indicate by beating or drumming.As an adjective beat is
exhausted.attack
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack , and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}
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Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks' on schools
Synonyms
* (volleyball) hit, spike * See alsoAntonyms
* (music) decay, releaseDerived terms
* attack is the best form of defence * pincer attackVerb
(en verb)- This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
- She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
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- On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever.
- Hydrofluoric acid attacks the glass.
- We´ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
- I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
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Synonyms
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* * * 1000 English basic words ----beat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) beten, from (etyl) ). Compare (etyl) batre, (etyl) battre.Noun
(en noun)- He, with a careless beat , / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
- a beat''' of the heart; the '''beat of the pulse
- to walk the beat
- ''a dead beat
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 beatSee also
* (piece of hip-hop music) trackVerb
- 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.
- He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
- The men of the city beat at the door.
- 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.
- A thousand hearts beat happily.
- 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.
- The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.
- Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
- He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
- 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 beat''' a retreat''; ''to '''beat to quarters
- pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way
- Why should any one beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
- to still my beating mind
- The drums beat .
- The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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-beaterAdjective
(en adjective)- After the long day, she was feeling completely beat .
- Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
- Her makeup was beat!