Beat vs Clout - What's the difference?

In archaic terms the difference between beat and clout

is that beat is a low cheat or swindler while clout is an iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

As nouns the difference between beat and clout

is that beat is a stroke; a blow while clout is influence or effectiveness, especially political.

As verbs the difference between beat and clout

is that beat is to hit; to knock; to pound; to strike while clout is to hit, especially with the fist.

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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clout

English

Noun

(en noun)

Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 15 , author=Felicity Cloake , title=How to cook the perfect nut roast , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=The chopped mushrooms add depth to both the Waitrose and the Go-Go Vegan recipe, but what gives the latter some real clout on the flavour front is a teaspoon of Marmite. Vegetarian tweeter Jessica Edmonds tells me her boyfriend likes a similar recipe because "it tastes of Twiglets!". I'm with him – frankly, what's Christmas without a Twiglet? – but Annie Bell's goat's cheese has given me an idea for something even more festive. Stilton works brilliantly with parsnips, providing a savoury richness which feels a little more special than common or garden yeast extract. Blue cheese calls to mind the chestnuts used by Mary Berry of course, and now I'm on a roll, I pop in some sage and onion too, in a nod to the classic festive stuffing. }}

(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.

* 1910 , , Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding

'Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.'

(informal) A home run.

* 2011 , , "Triple double", in The Boston Globe , August 17, 2011, p. C1.

'... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'

(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

* Shakespeare

A' must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout .

(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.

(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

* Spenser

His garments, nought but many ragged clouts , / With thorns together pinned and patched was.

* Shakespeare

a clout upon that head where late the diadem stood

(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

* 1866 , , A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 546.

Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear.

(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.

(Chaucer)

Derived terms

* breech-clout * clout list * clout-nail * ne'er cast a clout til May be out

Verb

(en verb)

To hit, especially with the fist.

To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.

* Latimer

Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.

To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.

To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

To join or patch clumsily.

* P. Fletcher

if fond Bavius vent his clouted song