Beat vs. Pulse

Beatnoun

A stroke; a blow.

Beatnoun

A pulsation or throb.

Beatnoun

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.

Beatnoun

A rhythm.

Beatnoun

(music) [specifically] The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.

Beatnoun

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

Beatnoun

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.

Beatnoun

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

Beatnoun

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

Beatnoun

In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

Beatnoun

(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

Beatnoun

That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

Beatnoun

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Beatnoun

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

Beatnoun

The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

Beatnoun

(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

Beatnoun

(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Beatnoun

A beatnik.

Beatverb

(transitive) To hit; strike

Beatverb

(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

Beatverb

(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

Beatverb

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

Beatverb

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

Beatverb

To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

Beatverb

(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

Beatverb

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Beatverb

of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

Beatverb

(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

Beatverb

To tread, as a path.

Beatverb

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Beatverb

To be in agitation or doubt.

Beatverb

To make a sound when struck.

Beatverb

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

Beatverb

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.

Beatverb

(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

Beatverb

to masturbate.

Beatadjective

exhausted

Beatadjective

dilapidated, beat up

Beatadjective

(gay slang) fabulous

Beatadjective

(slang) boring

Beatadjective

ugly

Beatverb

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

Beatverb

To punish by blows; to thrash.

Beatverb

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

Beatverb

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

Beatverb

To tread, as a path.

Beatverb

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.

Beatverb

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; - often with out.

Beatverb

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Beatverb

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

Beatverb

to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.

Beatverb

to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.

Beatverb

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

Beatverb

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

Beatverb

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.

Beatverb

To be in agitation or doubt.

Beatverb

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

Beatverb

To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

Beatverb

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

Beatverb

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.

Beatnoun

A stroke; a blow.

Beatnoun

A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

Beatnoun

The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

Beatnoun

A sudden swelling or reënforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.

Beatnoun

A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat; analogously, for newspaper reporters, the subject or territory that they are assigned to cover; as, the Washington beat.

Beatnoun

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Beatnoun

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; - often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, deadbeat.

Beatnoun

One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.

Beatnoun

The act of one that beats a person or thing

Beatnoun

The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

Beatnoun

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Beatadjective

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

Beatnoun

a regular route for a sentry or policeman;

Beatnoun

the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

Beatnoun

the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;

Beatnoun

a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

Beatnoun

a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

Beatnoun

the sound of stroke or blow;

Beatnoun

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Beatnoun

a regular rate of repetition;

Beatnoun

a stroke or blow;

Beatnoun

the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

Beatverb

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

Beatverb

give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;

Beatverb

hit repeatedly;

Beatverb

move rhythmically;

Beatverb

shape by beating;

Beatverb

make a rhythmic sound;

Beatverb

glare or strike with great intensity;

Beatverb

move with a thrashing motion;

Beatverb

sail with much tacking or with difficulty;

Beatverb

stir vigorously;

Beatverb

strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;

Beatverb

be superior;

Beatverb

avoid paying;

Beatverb

make a sound like a clock or a timer;

Beatverb

move with a flapping motion;

Beatverb

indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;

Beatverb

move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;

Beatverb

make by pounding or trampling;

Beatverb

produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;

Beatverb

strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

Beatverb

beat through cleverness and wit;

Beatverb

be a mystery or bewildering to;

Beatverb

wear out completely;

Beatadjective

very tired;

Pulsenoun

(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.

Pulsenoun

A beat or throb.

Pulsenoun

(music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

Pulsenoun

An autosoliton

Pulsenoun

Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.

Pulseverb

To beat, to throb, to flash.

Pulseverb

To flow, particularly of blood.

Pulseverb

To emit in discrete quantities.

Pulsenoun

Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

Pulsenoun

The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

Pulsenoun

Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.

Pulseverb

To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

Pulseverb

To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Pulsenoun

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients);

Pulsenoun

the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

Pulsenoun

the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

Pulsenoun

edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

Pulseverb

expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;

Pulseverb

produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses;

Pulseverb

drive by or as if by pulsation;

Pulse

In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the neck (carotid artery), wrist (radial artery), at the groin (femoral artery), behind the knee (popliteal artery), near the ankle joint (posterior tibial artery), and on foot (dorsalis pedis artery).