The difference between Beat and Own

When used as verbs, beat means to hit, whereas own means to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital).

When used as adjectives, beat means exhausted, whereas own means belonging to.

Beat is also noun with the meaning: a stroke.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beat and Own

  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. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

    Examples:

    "I own this car."

  2. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

    Examples:

    "The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon."

  3. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

    Examples:

    "I will own my enemies."

    "If he wins, he will own you."

  4. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To virtually or figuratively enslave.

  5. Own as a verb (online gaming, slang):

    To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled .

  6. Own as a verb (transitive, computing, slang):

    To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

  1. Own as an adjective:

    Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

    Examples:

    "They went that way, but we need to find our own."

  2. Own as an adjective (obsolete):

    Peculiar, domestic.

  3. Own as an adjective (obsolete):

    Not foreign.

  1. Own as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To grant; give.

  2. Own as a verb (intransitive):

    To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

  3. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To admit; concede; acknowledge.

  4. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To answer to.

  5. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To recognise; acknowledge.

    Examples:

    "to own one as a son"

  6. Own as a verb (transitive):

    To claim as one's own.

  7. Own as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To confess.

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