The difference between Beat and Fall

Beat as a noun:

A stroke; a blow.

Beat as a noun:

A pulsation or throb.

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.

Beat as a noun:

A rhythm.

Beat as a noun (music):

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

Beat as a noun:

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

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.

Beat as a noun:

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

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.).

Beat as a noun (dated):

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

Beat as a noun (colloquial, dated):

That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

Beat as a noun (dated):

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Beat as a noun (archaic):

A low cheat or swindler.

Beat as a noun:

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

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.

Beat as a noun (fencing):

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Beat as a verb (transitive):

To hit; strike

Beat as a verb (transitive):

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

Beat as a verb (intransitive):

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

Beat as a verb (intransitive):

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

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.

Beat as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

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

Beat as a verb (transitive):

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

Beat as a verb:

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Beat as a verb (transitive, UK, In [[haggling]] for a [[price]]):

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

Beat as a verb (transitive):

To indicate by beating or drumming.

Beat as a verb:

To tread, as a path.

Beat as a verb:

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Beat as a verb:

To be in agitation or doubt.

Beat as a verb:

To make a sound when struck.

Beat as a verb (military, intransitive):

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

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.

Beat as a verb (transitive):

To arrive at a place before someone.

Beat as a verb (transitive, US, slang, vulgar):

to masturbate.

Beat as a verb (intransitive, UK, slang, vulgar):

to have sexual intercourse.

Beat as an adjective (US, _, slang):

exhausted

Beat as an adjective:

dilapidated, beat up

Beat as an adjective (gay slang):

fabulous

Beat as an adjective (slang):

boring

Beat as an adjective (slang, of a person):

ugly

Beat as a noun:

A beatnik.

Fall as a noun:

The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

Fall as a noun:

A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

Fall as a noun (chiefly, North America, obsolete elsewhere):

The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

Fall as a noun:

A loss of greatness or status.

Fall as a noun:

That which falls or cascades.

Fall as a noun (sport):

A crucial event or circumstance. The action of a batsman being out. A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.

Fall as a noun:

A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.

Fall as a noun (informal, US):

Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.

Fall as a noun:

The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).

Fall as a noun:

See falls

Fall as a noun:

An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.

Fall as a noun:

A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To be moved downwards. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. To come down, to drop or descend. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. To be brought to the ground.

Fall as a verb (transitive):

To move downwards. To let fall; to drop. To sink; to depress. To fell; to cut down.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To happen, to change negatively. To become. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); . To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. To die, especially in battle or by disease. To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.

Fall as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To diminish; to lessen or lower.

Fall as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To bring forth.

Fall as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.

Fall as a verb (intransitive):

To be dropped or uttered carelessly.