Leap vs Beat - What's the difference?
leap | beat |
To jump.
* anonymous, Merlin
* 1600 , anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll , act 4
* 1783 , , from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , lecture 4, page 65
* 1999 , Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems , page 78
To pass over by a leap or jump.
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
To cause to leap.
The act of leaping or jumping.
* L'Estrange
* H. Sweet
The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
(figuratively) A significant move forward.
* 1969 July 20, , as he became the first man to step on the moon
(mining) A fault.
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
(music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
(obsolete) A basket.
A weel or wicker trap for fish.
(Webster 1913)
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
(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
In intransitive terms the difference between leap and beat
is that leap is to jump while beat is to move with pulsation or throbbing.In transitive terms the difference between leap and beat
is that leap is to cause to leap while beat is to indicate by beating or drumming.In lang=en terms the difference between leap and beat
is that leap is a passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals while beat is boring.As an adjective beat is
exhausted.leap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lepen, from (etyl) ‘to stumble’).Verb
- It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
- I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
- Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
- It is better to leap into the void.
- to leap a wall or a ditch
- to leap a horse across a ditch
Usage notes
The choice between leapt and leaped is mostly a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English and leaped in American English. According to research by John Algeo (British or American English? , Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.Synonyms
* (jump from one location to another) bound, hop, jump, spring * (jump upwards) bound, hop, jump, springNoun
(en noun)- Wickedness comes on by degrees, and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural.
- Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- (Wyclif)
Derived terms
* by leaps and bounds * leap day * leapfrog * leaping lizards * leap of faith * leaps and bounds * leap second * leap year * look before you leap * quantum leapEtymology 2
From (etyl) leep, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* leepAnagrams
* English irregular verbsbeat
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!