Beat vs. Lash — What's the Difference?

To strike repeatedly.

Strike or beat with a whip or stick

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.

(of an animal) move (a part of the body, especially the tail) quickly and violently

To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.

Fasten (something) securely with a cord or rope

To strike against repeatedly and with force; pound

A sharp blow or stroke with a whip or rope

To flap (wings, for example).

An eyelash

To strike so as to produce music or a signal

A stroke or blow with or as if with a whip.

(Music) To mark or count (time or rhythm), especially with the hands or with a baton.

A whip.

To shape or break by repeated blows; forge

The flexible portion of a whip, such as a plait or thong.

To make by pounding or trampling

Punishment administered with a whip.

To mix rapidly with a utensil

A lacerating presence or power

To defeat or subdue, as in a contest.

A caustic verbal attack.

To force to withdraw or retreat

An eyelash.

To dislodge from a position

To strike with or as if with a whip.

(Informal) To be superior to or better than

To strike against with force or violence

(Slang) To perplex or baffle

To beat or swing rapidly

To avoid or counter the effects of, often by thinking ahead; circumvent

To make a scathing oral or written attack against.

To arrive or finish before (another)

To drive or goad; sting

To deprive, as by craft or ability

To move swiftly or violently; thrash

(Physics) To cause a reference wave to combine with (a second wave) so that the frequency of the second wave can be studied through time variations in the amplitude of the combination.

To aim a sudden blow; strike

To inflict repeated blows.

To beat; flail

To pulsate; throb.

To make a scathing verbal or written attack. Often used with out

To emit sound when struck

To secure or bind, as with a rope, cord, or chain.

To strike a drum.

The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

To flap repeatedly.

(obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.

To shine or glare intensely

A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.

To fall in torrents

A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.

To hunt through woods or underbrush in search of game.

A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

(Nautical) To sail upwind by tacking repeatedly.

A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

A stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound or serves as a signal.

In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

A pulsation or throb.

An attempt; a go at something.

(Physics) A variation in the amplitude of a wave, especially that which results from the superpositioning of two or more waves of different frequencies. When sound waves are combined, the beat is heard as a pulsation in the sound.

Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).

A steady succession of units of rhythm.

(transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

A gesture used by a conductor to indicate such a unit.

(transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.

A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse.

(transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

A variable unit of time measuring a pause taken by an actor, as for dramatic effect.

(transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.

The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry

(intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.

The reporting of a news item obtained ahead of one's competitors.

(intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.

Often Beat A member of the Beat Generation.

To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.

(Informal) Worn-out; fatigued.

(transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

Often Beat Of or relating to the Beat Generation.

(obsolete) Remiss, lax.

A stroke; a blow.

(obsolete) Relaxed.

A pulsation or throb.

Soft, watery, wet.

(music) 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.

(Ulster) Excellent, wonderful.

A rhythm.

(Britain) Drunk.

(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.

The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

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

A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

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

To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.

That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

A precinct.

To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.

(AU) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.

To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

Leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip

(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

A quick blow with a whip

(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

Beat severely with a whip or rod;

A beatnik.

Lash or flick about sharply;

(transitive) To hit; to strike.

Strike as if by whipping;

(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

Bind with a rope, chain, or cord;

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

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

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

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

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

To tread, as a path.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To make a sound when struck.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.

(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

To have sexual intercourse.

To rob.

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Exhausted.

Dilapidated, beat up.

Having impressively attractive makeup.

(slang) Boring.

Ugly.

Relating to the Beat Generation.

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

To punish by blows; to thrash.

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

To tread, as a path.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; - often with out.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

To baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.

To evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.

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

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

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.

A stroke; a blow.

A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat; analogously, for newspaper reporters, the subject or territory that they are assigned to cover; as, the Washington beat.

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; - often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, deadbeat.

One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.

The act of one that beats a person or thing

The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

A regular route for a sentry or policeman;

The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;

A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

The sound of stroke or blow;

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

A regular rate of repetition;

A stroke or blow;

The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;

Hit repeatedly;

Move rhythmically;

Shape by beating;

Make a rhythmic sound;

Glare or strike with great intensity;

Move with a thrashing motion;

Sail with much tacking or with difficulty;

Stir vigorously;

Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;

Be superior;

Avoid paying;

Make a sound like a clock or a timer;

Move with a flapping motion;

Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;

Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;

Make by pounding or trampling;

Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;

Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

Beat through cleverness and wit;

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

Wear out completely;

Very tired;