The difference between Beat and Top

When used as nouns, beat means a stroke, whereas top means (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top.

When used as verbs, beat means to hit, whereas top means to cover on the top or with a top.

When used as adjectives, beat means exhausted, whereas top means situated on the top of something.

Top is also adverb with the meaning: rated first.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beat and Top

  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. Top as a noun (nautical):

    The highest or uppermost part of something. (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top. The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc. A lid, cap or cover of a container. A garment worn to cover the torso. A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached. The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats. The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

    Examples:

    "His kite got caught at the top of the tree."

    "We flipped the machine onto its top."

    "Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.  nowrap Headings appear at the tops of pages."

    "Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad."

    "I bought this top as it matches my jeans."

  2. Top as a noun:

    A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.

    Examples:

    "The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin."

  3. Top as a noun:

    Someone who is eminent. The chief person; the most prominent one. The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.

    Examples:

    "to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school"

  4. Top as a noun (BDSM):

    A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

  5. Top as a noun (LGBT, slang):

    A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.

    Examples:

    "I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom."

  6. Top as a noun (physics):

    A top quark.

  7. Top as a noun:

    The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

  8. Top as a noun (ropemaking):

    A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.

  9. Top as a noun (sound):

    Highest pitch or loudest volume.

    Examples:

    "She sang at the top of her voice."

  10. Top as a noun (wool manufacture):

    A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

  11. Top as a noun (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase ''[[on top of]]''):

    Eve; verge; point.

  12. Top as a noun:

    The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  13. Top as a noun (in the plural, slang, dated):

    Topboots.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Charles Dickens"

  14. Top as a noun (golf):

    A stroke on the top of the ball.

  15. Top as a noun (golf):

    A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.

  16. Top as a noun (in restaurants, preceded by a number):

    (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.

  1. Top as a verb:

    To cover on the top or with a top.

    Examples:

    "I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce."

  2. Top as a verb:

    To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)

    Examples:

    "I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair."

    "Top and tail the carrots."

  3. Top as a verb:

    To excel, to surpass, to beat.

    Examples:

    "Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar."

  4. Top as a verb:

    To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).

    Examples:

    "Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s."

  5. Top as a verb (British, slang):

    To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.

    Examples:

    "Depression causes many people to top themselves."

  6. Top as a verb (BDSM):

    To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

    Examples:

    "I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping."

    "Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom"."

  7. Top as a verb (slang, gay sexuality, intransitive):

    To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.

  8. Top as a verb (slang, gay sexuality, transitive):

    To anally penetrate.

  9. Top as a verb (archaic):

    To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.

    Examples:

    "lofty ridges and topping mountains"

    "rfquotek Derham"

  10. Top as a verb (archaic):

    To predominate.

    Examples:

    "topping passions"

  11. Top as a verb (archaic):

    To excel; to rise above others.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  12. Top as a verb (nautical):

    To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.

  13. Top as a verb (dyeing):

    To cover with another dye.

    Examples:

    "to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening"

  14. Top as a verb:

    To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).

  15. Top as a verb (slang, dated):

    To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.

  16. Top as a verb (of a horse):

    To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.

  17. Top as a verb:

    To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.

  18. Top as a verb:

    To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.

  19. Top as a verb (golf):

    To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

  1. Top as an adjective:

    Situated on the top of something.

  2. Top as an adjective (informal):

    Best; of the highest quality or rank.

    Examples:

    "She's in the top dance school."

  3. Top as an adjective (informal):

    Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.

    Examples:

    "He's a top lawyer."

    "That is a top car."

  1. Top as an adverb:

    Rated first.

    Examples:

    "She came top in her French exam."

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