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Beat vs Stroke - What's the difference?

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Stroke is a synonym of beat.



In lang=en terms the difference between beat and stroke

is that beat is boring while stroke is a single act of striking at the ball with a club.

In transitive terms the difference between beat and stroke

is that beat is to indicate by beating or drumming while stroke is to row the stroke oar of.

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
    See also
    * (piece of hip-hop music) track

    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.
  • * {{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
    • , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
  • 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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    stroke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia stroke) (en noun)
  • An act of (gloss, moving one's hand over a surface).
  • A blow or hit.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xix. 5
    • His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke .
  • A single movement with a tool.
  • # (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.
  • # (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
  • # (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
  • # (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
  • # A thrust of a piston.
  • 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, or of an oar in rowing
    the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc.
  • A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
    • a stroke''' of genius; a '''stroke''' of business; a master '''stroke of policy
  • A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement.
  • # (hence, British) The symbol .
  • # (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
  • The time when a clock strikes.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=John Percy, work=the Telegraph
    • , title= Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , passage=Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.}}
  • (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
  • (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
  • (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
    • a stroke''' of apoplexy; the '''stroke of death
  • * Harte
    • At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
  • (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
  • (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
  • (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
  • (squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
  • (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
  • * Bible, Isa. xxx. 26
    • in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
  • An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
    • to give some finishing strokes to an essay
    (Addison)
  • A throb or beat, as of the heart.
    • (Tennyson)
  • (obsolete) Power; influence.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • where money beareth all the stroke
  • * Dryden
    • He has a great stroke with the reader.
  • (obsolete) appetite
    • (Jonathan Swift)
    Synonyms
    * caress * (blow) blow, hit, beat ** (act of striking with a weapon) blow * (single movement with a tool) ** (in golf) ** (in tennis) ** (in rowing) ** (in cricket) shot ** (thrust of a piston) push, thrust * (made with a pen) stroke of the pen ** (made with a brush) brushstroke ** (symbol) forward slash (in computing), shilling sign (qualifier), slant, slash (especially in computing), solidus, virgule * (time when a clock strikes) hour * (particular style of swimming) * (in medical sense) cerebrovascular accident, CVA * (in wrestling)
    Derived terms
    * at a stroke * at one stroke * backstroke * breaststroke * broad strokes * brushstroke * butterfly stroke * different strokes for different folks * down to the short strokes * four-stroke engine * government stroke * keystroke * masterstroke * multistroke * short strokes * stroke of genius * stroke of luck * stroke of work * stroke order * two-stroke engine * umstroke

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stroken, straken, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (strok)
  • To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
  • * Dryden
    • He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
  • (cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
  • (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
  • To row the stroke oar of.
    • to stroke a boat

    See also

    * (pedialite)

    Anagrams

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