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Onbeat vs Inbeat - What's the difference?

onbeat | inbeat |

As nouns the difference between onbeat and inbeat

is that onbeat is (music) the first and third beats in a bar of four-four time while inbeat is the act, process, or instance of beating in.

As a verb inbeat is

to beat in.

onbeat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) The first and third beats in a bar of four-four time.

    • inbeat

    English

    Verb

  • To beat in.
  • *1855 , Mary Matilda Howard, Hastings, past and present :
    • [...] and in part imputeth it, that the river Rother is not contained in his channel, and so loseth his force to carry away the sands and beach which the sea doth inbeat into the haven.
  • *1873 , Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth pulpit :
    • [...] a man may be superior to his circumstances, and even to these constantly outlying and inbeating influences which deteriorate his life.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act, process, or instance of beating in.
  • *1999 , Elizabeth A. Grosz, Becomings: explorations in time, memory, and futures :
    • [...] two-beat: an outbeat gesture of (usually circumscribed) ecstasis as my glance is released from my bodily self, and an inbeat return of the glance to the bodily-self now modified by having just perceived its own image in the mirror.
  • *2002 , Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager, The Story of World War II :
    • The bullet . . . came through my chest between two ribs, slightly shattering them, went past my heart, as the doctors later told me, when it must have been on an inbeat instead of an outbeat, and then missed my backbone as it went through the other side of my body about an inch.