The difference between Beat and Track

When used as nouns, beat means a stroke, whereas track means a mark left by something that has passed along.

When used as verbs, beat means to hit, whereas track means to observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.

Beat is also adjective with the meaning: exhausted.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beat and Track

  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. Track as a noun:

    A mark left by something that has passed along.

    Examples:

    "Follow the track of the ship."

    "Can you see any tracks in the snow?"

  2. Track as a noun:

    A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.

    Examples:

    "The fox tracks were still visible in the snow."

  3. Track as a noun:

    The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.

  4. Track as a noun:

    A road or other similar beaten path.

    Examples:

    "Follow the track for a hundred metres."

  5. Track as a noun:

    Physical course; way.

    Examples:

    "Astronomers predicted the track of the comet."

  6. Track as a noun:

    A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

    Examples:

    "The athletes ran round the track."

  7. Track as a noun:

    The direction and progress of someone or something; path.

  8. Track as a noun (railways):

    The way or rails along which a train moves.

    Examples:

    "They briefly closed the railway to remove debris found on the track."

  9. Track as a noun:

    A tract or area, such as of land.

  10. Track as a noun:

    Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.

  11. Track as a noun (automotive):

    The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)

  12. Track as a noun (automotive):

    Short for caterpillar track.

  13. Track as a noun (cricket):

    The pitch.

  14. Track as a noun:

    Sound stored on a record.

  15. Track as a noun:

    The physical track on a record.

  16. Track as a noun (music):

    A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence

    Examples:

    "My favourite track on the album is "Sunshine"."

  17. Track as a noun:

    A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.

  18. Track as a noun (uncountable, sports):

    The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to try out for track next week."

  19. Track as a noun:

    A session talk on a conference.

  1. Track as a verb (transitive):

    To continue observing over time. To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. To monitor the movement of a person or object. To match the movement or change of a person or object. To travel so that a moving object remains in shot. To move.

    Examples:

    "We will track the raven population over the next six months."

    "Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid."

    "My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him."

    "The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time."

    "The hurricane tracked further west than expected."

  2. Track as a verb (transitive):

    To follow the tracks of. To discover the location of a person or object. To leave in the form of tracks.

    Examples:

    "My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud."

    "I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night."

    "In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house."

  3. Track as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive):

    To create a musical recording (a track). To create music using tracker software.

    Examples:

    "Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week."

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