Beat vs. Track
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;
Tracknoun
A mark left by something that has passed along.
Tracknoun
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
Tracknoun
The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
Tracknoun
A road or other similar beaten path.
Tracknoun
Physical course; way.
Tracknoun
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
Tracknoun
The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
Tracknoun
(railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
Tracknoun
A tract or area, such as of land.
Tracknoun
Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
Tracknoun
(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)
Tracknoun
(automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
Tracknoun
(cricket) The pitch.
Tracknoun
Sound stored on a record.
Tracknoun
The physical track on a record.
Tracknoun
(music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence
Tracknoun
A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
Tracknoun
The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
Tracknoun
A session talk on a conference.
Trackverb
To continue observing over time.
Trackverb
(transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
Trackverb
(transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
Trackverb
(transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
Trackverb
To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
Trackverb
To move.
Trackverb
(transitive) To follow the tracks of.
Trackverb
(transitive) To discover the location of a person or object.
Trackverb
(transitive) To leave in the form of tracks.
Trackverb
To create a musical recording (a track).
Trackverb
To create music using tracker software.
Tracknoun
A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
Tracknoun
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
Tracknoun
The entire lower surface of the foot; - said of birds, etc.
Tracknoun
A road; a beaten path.
Tracknoun
Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
Tracknoun
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
Tracknoun
The permanent way; the rails.
Tracknoun
A tract or area, as of land.
Trackverb
To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
Trackverb
To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
Tracknoun
a line or route along which something travels or moves;
Tracknoun
evidence pointing to a possible solution;
Tracknoun
a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
Tracknoun
a course over which races are run
Tracknoun
a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc;
Tracknoun
an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
Tracknoun
(computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
Tracknoun
a groove on a phonograph recording
Tracknoun
a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll
Tracknoun
any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
Tracknoun
the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
Trackverb
carry on the feet and deposit;
Trackverb
observe or plot the moving path of something;
Trackverb
go after with the intent to catch;
Trackverb
travel across or pass over;
Trackverb
make tracks upon
