The difference between Beat and Beat up
When used as nouns, beat means a stroke, whereas beat up means a person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
When used as verbs, beat means to hit, whereas beat up means to give a severe beating to.
When used as adjectives, beat means exhausted, whereas beat up means battered by time and usage.
check bellow for the other definitions of Beat and Beat up
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Beat as a noun:
A stroke; a blow.
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Beat as a noun:
A pulsation or throb.
Examples:
"a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse"
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Beat as a noun:
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.
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Beat as a noun:
A rhythm.
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Beat as a noun (music):
[specifically] The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
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Beat as a noun:
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
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Beat as a noun (authorship):
A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
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Beat as a noun:
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
Examples:
"to [[walk the beat]]"
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Beat as a noun (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.).
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Beat as a noun (dated):
An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
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Beat as a noun (colloquial, dated):
That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
Examples:
"the beat of him"
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Beat as a noun (dated):
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
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Beat as a noun (archaic):
A low cheat or swindler.
Examples:
"a dead beat"
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Beat as a noun:
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
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Beat as a noun (hunting):
The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
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Beat as a noun (fencing):
A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
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Beat as a verb (transitive):
To hit; strike
Examples:
"As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled."
"synonyms: knock pound strike hammer whack"
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Beat as a verb (transitive):
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
Examples:
"He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."
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Beat as a verb (intransitive):
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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Beat as a verb (intransitive):
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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Beat as a verb (transitive):
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
Examples:
"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."
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Beat as a verb (intransitive, nautical):
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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Beat as a verb (transitive):
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
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Beat as a verb:
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Examples:
"Beat the eggs and whip the cream."
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Beat as a verb (transitive, UK, In [[haggling]] for a [[price]]):
of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
Examples:
"He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35."
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Beat as a verb (transitive):
To indicate by beating or drumming.
Examples:
"to beat a retreat''; ''to beat to quarters"
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Beat as a verb:
To tread, as a path.
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Beat as a verb:
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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Beat as a verb:
To be in agitation or doubt.
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Beat as a verb:
To make a sound when struck.
Examples:
"The drums beat."
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Beat as a verb (military, intransitive):
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
Examples:
"The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters."
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Beat as a verb:
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.
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Beat as a verb (transitive):
To arrive at a place before someone.
Examples:
"He beat me there."
"The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch."
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Beat as a verb (transitive, US, slang, vulgar):
to masturbate.
Examples:
"This was the second time he beat off today."
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Beat as a verb (intransitive, UK, slang, vulgar):
to have sexual intercourse.
Examples:
"Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat."
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Beat as an adjective (US, _, slang):
exhausted
Examples:
"After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."
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Beat as an adjective:
dilapidated, beat up
Examples:
"Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."
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Beat as an adjective (gay slang):
fabulous
Examples:
"Her makeup was beat!"
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Beat as an adjective (slang):
boring
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Beat as an adjective (slang, of a person):
ugly
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Beat as a noun:
A beatnik.
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Beat up as a verb (transitive):
To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
Examples:
"I got beaten up by thugs on my way home."
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Beat up as a verb (obsolete):
To attack suddenly; to alarm.
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Beat up as a verb:
To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
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Beat up as a verb (reflexive):
To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. Usually followed by over or about.
Examples:
"Don't beat yourself up over such a minor mistake."
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Beat up as a verb (military, WW2 air pilots' usage):
Repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
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Beat up as a verb:
To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game
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Beat up as a verb (intransitive, nautical):
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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Beat up as a verb (intransitive, dated):
To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
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Beat up as a verb (intransitive, dated):
To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
Examples:
"to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers"
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Beat up as an adjective (slang):
Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
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Beat up as a noun:
A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
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Beat up as a noun (UK, military slang):
An act of beating up: A raid. A beating; a hazing.
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Beat up as a noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand):
An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
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Beat up as a noun (forestry):
A tree planted later than others in a plantation.