The difference between Beat and Stroke

When used as nouns, beat means a stroke, whereas stroke means an act of stroking .

When used as verbs, beat means to hit, whereas stroke means to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

Beat is also adjective with the meaning: exhausted.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beat and Stroke

  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. Stroke as a noun:

    An act of stroking .

    Examples:

    "She gave the cat a stroke."

  2. Stroke as a noun:

    A blow or hit.

    Examples:

    "a stroke on the chin"

  3. Stroke as a noun (golf):

    A single movement with a tool. A single act of striking at the ball with a club. The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact. The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull. The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot. A thrust of a piston. An act of striking with a weapon

  4. Stroke as a noun:

    One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.

    Examples:

    "the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing"

    "the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc."

  5. Stroke as a noun:

    A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.

    Examples:

    "a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy"

  6. Stroke as a noun (linguistics):

    A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly: The slash, /. The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A̶ and A̵). A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.

  7. Stroke as a noun:

    A streak made with a brush.

  8. Stroke as a noun:

    The time when a clock strikes.

    Examples:

    "on the stroke of midnight"

  9. Stroke as a noun (swimming):

    A style, a single movement within a style.

    Examples:

    "butterfly stroke'"

  10. Stroke as a noun (medicine):

    The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.

  11. Stroke as a noun (obsolete):

    A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.

    Examples:

    "a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death"

  12. Stroke as a noun (rowing):

    The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.

  13. Stroke as a noun (rowing):

    The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.

  14. Stroke as a noun ([[professional wrestling]]):

    Backstage influence.

  15. Stroke as a noun (squash):

    A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.

  16. Stroke as a noun (sciences):

    An individual discharge of lightning.

    Examples:

    "A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker."

  17. Stroke as a noun (obsolete):

    The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

  18. Stroke as a noun:

    An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.

    Examples:

    "to give some finishing strokes to an essay"

    "rfquotek Addison"

  19. Stroke as a noun:

    A throb or beat, as of the heart.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tennyson"

  20. Stroke as a noun:

    Power; influence.

  21. Stroke as a noun (obsolete):

    appetite

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Jonathan Swift"

  1. Stroke as a verb (transitive):

    To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

  2. Stroke as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.

  3. Stroke as a verb (masonry):

    To give a finely fluted surface to.

  4. Stroke as a verb (transitive, rowing):

    To row the stroke oar of.

    Examples:

    "to stroke a boat"

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