What is the difference between beat and pants?

Pants is a derived term of beat.

As nouns the difference between beat and pants

is that beat is a stroke; a blow while pants is an outer garment worn by men and women that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

As verbs the difference between beat and pants

is that beat is to hit; to knock; to pound; to strike while pants is to pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

As adjectives the difference between beat and pants

is that beat is exhausted while pants is of inferior quality, rubbish.

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

* * * English irregular simple past forms English irregular verbs English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax ----

pants

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from .

Noun

(en-plural noun)

* 1933 , , Rabble in Arms , 1996, page 220:

“But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants': to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, ' pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”

* 1989 , , Penguin (2006), page 427:

Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.

* 2010 , Ronald C. Eng (editor), Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills , 8th Edition, The Mountaineers Books, US, page 24:

Look for pants' with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the ' pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.

* 2005 , , page 12:

I rolled up the legs of the pants , then I went back into the trees.

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* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:

I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.

* 1976 , Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day , 1988, page 127:

Big girls get candy for dry pants .

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage (2005), page 183:

As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.

(fashion) English plurals

(UK, slang) rubbish; something worthless

You're talking pants !

The film was a load (or pile) of pants .

Synonyms

* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) breeks, britches, hosen, slacks, strides, trousers * (undergarment that covers the genitals and often neighbouring body parts) drawers, underpants, underwear *: (for men) boxers, boxer shorts, BVD's, ginch, gitch, gonch, gotch, jockeys, jockey shorts, shorts, skivvies, undershorts *: (for women) underpants, knickers, panties

Hyponyms

* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) corduroys/cords, jeans

Derived terms

* -pants * all mouth and pants, all mouth and no pants * beat the pants off * ), seat-of-the-pants * * hot pants/hotpants * kick in the pants * overpants * smarty pants * the pants off (with scare, bore, beat, etc.) * wear the pants *

Verb

(es)

To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

* 1948 , University of California, Carolina Quarterly , page 47:

Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.

* 1980 , William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip , Atheneum, page 242:

[T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.

* 1993 , Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories , page 174:

Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.

Synonyms

* depants, de-pants, (British) keg

Adjective

(en adjective)

(British, slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.

Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

Etymology 2

From the verb (term) (from (etyl) panten and (hence) the noun (pant).)

Verb

(head)

(pant)

External links

* (pedia)