The difference between Beat and Get

When used as nouns, beat means a stroke, whereas get means offspring.

When used as verbs, beat means to hit, whereas get means to obtain.

Beat is also adjective with the meaning: exhausted.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beat and Get

  1. Beat as a noun:

    A stroke; a blow.

  2. Beat as a noun:

    A pulsation or throb.

    Examples:

    "a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse"

  3. 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.

  4. Beat as a noun:

    A rhythm.

  5. Beat as a noun (music):

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

  6. Beat as a noun:

    The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

  7. 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.

  8. Beat as a noun:

    The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

    Examples:

    "to [[walk the beat]]"

  9. 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.).

  10. Beat as a noun (dated):

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

  11. Beat as a noun (colloquial, dated):

    That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

    Examples:

    "the beat of him"

  12. Beat as a noun (dated):

    A place of habitual or frequent resort.

  13. Beat as a noun (archaic):

    A low cheat or swindler.

    Examples:

    "a dead beat"

  14. Beat as a noun:

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

  15. 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.

  16. Beat as a noun (fencing):

    A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

  1. 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"

  2. 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."

  3. Beat as a verb (intransitive):

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

  4. Beat as a verb (intransitive):

    To move with pulsation or throbbing.

  5. 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."

  6. Beat as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

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

  7. Beat as a verb (transitive):

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

  8. Beat as a verb:

    To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

    Examples:

    "Beat the eggs and whip the cream."

  9. 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."

  10. Beat as a verb (transitive):

    To indicate by beating or drumming.

    Examples:

    "to beat a retreat''; ''to beat to quarters"

  11. Beat as a verb:

    To tread, as a path.

  12. Beat as a verb:

    To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

  13. Beat as a verb:

    To be in agitation or doubt.

  14. Beat as a verb:

    To make a sound when struck.

    Examples:

    "The drums beat."

  15. 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."

  16. 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.

  17. 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."

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

    to masturbate.

    Examples:

    "This was the second time he beat off today."

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

    to have sexual intercourse.

    Examples:

    "Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat."

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

    exhausted

    Examples:

    "After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."

  2. Beat as an adjective:

    dilapidated, beat up

    Examples:

    "Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."

  3. Beat as an adjective (gay slang):

    fabulous

    Examples:

    "Her makeup was beat!"

  4. Beat as an adjective (slang):

    boring

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

    ugly

  1. Beat as a noun:

    A beatnik.

  1. Get as a verb (ditransitive):

    To obtain; to acquire.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store."

    "Lance is going to get Mary a ring."

  2. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To receive.

    Examples:

    "I got a computer from my parents for my birthday."

    "You need to get permission to leave early."

    "He got a severe reprimand for that."

  3. Get as a verb (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning):

    To have.

    Examples:

    "I've got a concert ticket for you."

  4. Get as a verb (copulative):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "I'm getting hungry; how about you?"

    "Don't get drunk tonight."

  5. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to become; to bring about.

    Examples:

    "That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it."

    "I'll get this finished by lunchtime."

    "I can't get these boots off upright (or on'upright )."

  6. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To fetch, bring, take.

    Examples:

    "Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?"

    "I need to get this to the office."

  7. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to do.

    Examples:

    "Somehow she got him to agree to it."

    "I can't get it to work."

  8. Get as a verb (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as [[into]], [[over]], or [[behind]]; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries [[get into]], [[get over]], etc.):

    To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

    Examples:

    "The actors are getting into position."

    "When are we going to get to London?"

    "I'm getting into a muddle."

    "We got behind the wall."

  9. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

    Examples:

    "to get a mile"

  10. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to come or go or move.

  11. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to be in a certain status or position.

  12. Get as a verb (intransitive):

    To begin (doing something).

    Examples:

    "We ought to get moving or we'll be late."

    "After lunch we got chatting."

  13. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

    Examples:

    "I normally get the 7:45 train."

    "I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston."

  14. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

    Examples:

    "Can you get that call, please? I'm busy."

  15. Get as a verb (intransitive, followed by infinitive):

    To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

    Examples:

    "I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!"

    "The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure."

  16. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To understand. }}

    Examples:

    "Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny."

    "I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!"

    "I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me."

  17. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

    Examples:

    "You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."

  18. Get as a verb (informal):

    To be.

    Examples:

    "He got bitten by a dog."

  19. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To become ill with or catch (a disease).

    Examples:

    "I went on holiday and got malaria."

  20. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To catch out, trick successfully.

    Examples:

    "He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time."

  21. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To perplex, stump.

    Examples:

    "That question's really got me."

  22. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To find as an answer.

    Examples:

    "What did you get for question four?"

  23. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

    Examples:

    "The cops finally got me."

    "I'm gonna get him for that."

  24. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To hear completely; catch.

    Examples:

    "Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?"

  25. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To getter.

    Examples:

    "I put the getter into the container to get the gases."

  26. Get as a verb (now, rare):

    To beget (of a father).

  27. Get as a verb (archaic):

    To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

    Examples:

    "to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson"

  28. Get as a verb (imperative, informal):

    Examples:

    "'Get her with her new hairdo."

  29. Get as a verb (informal, mostly, imperative):

    Go away; get lost.

  30. Get as a verb (euphemism):

    To kill.

    Examples:

    "They’re coming to get you, Barbara."

  31. Get as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

  1. Get as a noun (dated):

    Offspring.

  2. Get as a noun:

    Lineage.

  3. Get as a noun (sports, tennis):

    A difficult return or block of a shot.

  4. Get as a noun:

    Something gained.

  1. Get as a noun (British, regional):

    A git.

  1. Get as a noun (Judaism):

    A Jewish writ of divorce.

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