Beat vs. Stroke

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;

Strokenoun

An act of stroking moving one's hand over a surface.

Strokenoun

A blow or hit.

Strokenoun

A single movement with a tool.

Strokenoun

(golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.

Strokenoun

(tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.

Strokenoun

(rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.

Strokenoun

(cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.

Strokenoun

A thrust of a piston.

Strokenoun

An act of striking with a weapon

Strokenoun

One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.

Strokenoun

A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.

Strokenoun

A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly:

Strokenoun

The slash, /.

Strokenoun

The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A̶ and A̵).

Strokenoun

(linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.

Strokenoun

A streak made with a brush.

Strokenoun

The time when a clock strikes.

Strokenoun

(swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.

Strokenoun

(medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.

Strokenoun

(obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.

Strokenoun

(rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.

Strokenoun

(rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.

Strokenoun

(professional wrestling) Backstage influence.

Strokenoun

(squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.

Strokenoun

(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.

Strokenoun

(obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

Strokenoun

An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.

Strokenoun

A throb or beat, as of the heart.

Strokenoun

Power; influence.

Strokenoun

(obsolete) appetite

Strokeverb

(transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

Strokeverb

To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.

Strokeverb

(masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.

Strokeverb

To row the stroke oar of.

Stroke

Struck.

Strokenoun

The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.

Strokenoun

The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

Strokenoun

The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

Strokenoun

A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.

Strokenoun

A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.

Strokenoun

Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.

Strokenoun

A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.

Strokenoun

A throb or beat, as of the heart.

Strokenoun

One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.

Strokenoun

A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

Strokenoun

The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.

Strokenoun

Power; influence.

Strokenoun

Appetite.

Strokeverb

To strike.

Strokeverb

To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.

Strokeverb

To make smooth by rubbing.

Strokeverb

To give a finely fluted surface to.

Strokeverb

To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.

Strokenoun

(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand;

Strokenoun

the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam

Strokenoun

a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

Strokenoun

a light touch

Strokenoun

a light touch with the hands

Strokenoun

the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew

Strokenoun

a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

Strokenoun

a mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing)

Strokenoun

any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing

Strokenoun

a single complete movement

Strokeverb

touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions;

Strokeverb

strike a ball with a smooth blow

Strokeverb

row at a particular rate

Strokeverb

treat gingerly or carefully;

Strokenoun

an act of hitting or striking someone or something; a blow

Strokenoun

a method of striking the ball in sports or games.

Strokenoun

an act of hitting the ball with a club, as a unit of scoring

Strokenoun

the sound made by a striking clock

Strokenoun

a mark made by drawing a pen, pencil, or paintbrush in one direction across paper or canvas

Strokenoun

a line forming part of a written or printed character.

Strokenoun

a short printed or written diagonal line typically separating characters or figures.

Strokenoun

an act of moving one's hand across a surface with gentle pressure

Strokenoun

each of a series of movements in which something moves out of its position and back into it

Strokenoun

the whole motion of a piston in either direction.

Strokenoun

the rhythm to which a series of repeated movements is performed

Strokenoun

a movement of the arms and legs forming one of a series in swimming

Strokenoun

a particular style of moving the arms and legs in swimming

Strokenoun

(in rowing) the mode or action of moving the oar.

Strokenoun

the oar or oarsman nearest the stern of a boat, setting the timing for the other rowers.

Strokenoun

a sudden disabling attack or loss of consciousness caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain, especially through thrombosis

Strokeverb

move one's hand with gentle pressure over (a surface), typically repeatedly; caress

Strokeverb

apply (something) to a surface using a gentle movement

Strokeverb

reassure or flatter (someone), especially in order to gain their cooperation

Strokeverb

act as the stroke of (a boat or crew)

Strokeverb

hit or kick (a ball) smoothly and deliberately

Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.