Beat vs Domain - What's the difference?
beat | domain | Synonyms |
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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, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
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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
(nonstandard)
* 1825? , "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters , page 231:
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
A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
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(mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
(mathematics) A of nonzero elements is zero.
(mathematics, topology, analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
(computing, Internet) Any DNS]] domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its [[subdomain, subdomains
* 2000 , BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2) , Internet Software Consortium [http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html]
(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS]] or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its [[subdomain, subdomains
(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain', the computers named in the '''domain''', and the network on which the computers named in the ' domain reside
(computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain' s domain names
(physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction; such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory
(data processing) a form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage
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(biology, taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria'', ''Archaea'', or ''Eukaryota .
(biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function
Beat is a synonym of domain.
As a verb beat
is .As a noun domain is
domain (dns domain name).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!
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
From (beatnik)Derived terms
* beat generationReferences
* DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.domain
English
Noun
(en noun)- The king ruled his domain harshly.
- Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain : get in touch with customer services.
- His domain is English history.
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- Every name in the DNS tree is a domain , even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
- A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.