Pace vs Beat - What's the difference?
pace | beat |
(obsolete) Passage, route.
# (obsolete) One's journey or route.
# (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
# (obsolete) An aisle in a church.
Step.
# A step taken with the foot.
# The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
Way of stepping.
# A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
#* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 9
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark
, work=BBC Sport
# Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
Speed or velocity in general.
(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
The collective noun for donkeys.
* 1952 , G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe , The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
* 2006 , "
* 2007 , Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905,
(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
Walk to and fro in a small space.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
Set the speed in a race.
Measure by walking.
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.
*
(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.
* {{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.
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
As a proper noun pace
is .As a verb beat is
.pace
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pas, (etyl) pas, and their source, (etyl) passus.Noun
(en noun)- But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance , ¶ ? 6)
- Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
- I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces .
citation, page= , passage=Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.}}
- but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.
Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist , 9 November 2006:
- A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
page 200:
- Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering'' of chicks, ''pace'' of donkeys, ''troop'' of horses, and ''fold of sheep.
Derived terms
* pace car * pacemaker * pace setter * pacerAdjective
(-)Verb
(pac)- Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
Derived terms
* (set the speed in a race) pacemakerEtymology 2
From (etyl) '', “in peace”, ablative form of ''pax , “peace”.Usage notes
Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.Etymology 3
Alteration of Pasch.Derived terms
* pace eggReferences
beat
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!