What's the difference between beat and strike?

Beat


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Beat
  • (p. p.) of Beat
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
  • (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
  • (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
  • (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
  • (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
  • (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
  • (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  • (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  • (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
  • (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
  • (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
  • (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
  • (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (n.) A stroke; a blow.
  • (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
  • (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
  • (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
  • (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  • (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
  • (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (2) Calcium added to the myocytes seen after beating ceased reversed the effect and the cells started to beat again.
  • (3) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
  • (4) Amiodarone was able to suppress the premature ventricular beats, depress conduction and prolong refractoriness in both, the AV node and accessory pathway to prevent recurrences of atrioventricular reentry.
  • (5) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (6) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
  • (7) At lower frequencies of stimulation the heart beat is increased to rates dependent on interaction between the time course of the hyperpolarization and the refractory period of the heart.
  • (8) Tachycardia was sustained for a mean of 4.8 hours prior to medical evaluation, with a mean rate of 186 beats per minute and mean systolic blood pressure of 111 mm Hg.
  • (9) A linear increase in heart rate per 10-fold increase of either drug was observed, (-)-isoprenaline: 25 beats - min-1-; (plus or minus)-salbutamol: 14 beats - min-1-.
  • (10) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (11) Gated blood pool images were stored in modified left anterior oblique views by the multiple gated method (28 frames per beat) after the in vivo labeling of erythrocytes using 25 mCi 99m-Tc.
  • (12) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (13) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
  • (14) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (15) Complete atrio-ventricular block, and salves of ventricular premature beats were the most serious rhythm disturbances.
  • (16) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (17) When intracellular recordings were made from muscle cells of the sinus venosus, it was found that applied acetylcholine caused bradycardia and a cessation of the heart beat which was associated with membrane hyperpolarization and a reduction in the duration of the action potentials.
  • (18) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
  • (19) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
  • (20) Shaker Aamer , a Saudi who lived in London before travelling to Afghanistan, has given a statement to one of his lawyers in which he says British intelligence officers were present while Americans beat him and smashed his head against a wall.

Strike


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
  • (v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
  • (v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
  • (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
  • (v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
  • (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
  • (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
  • (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
  • (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
  • (v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
  • (v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
  • (v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
  • (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
  • (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
  • (v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
  • (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
  • (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
  • (v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
  • (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
  • (v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
  • (v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
  • (v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
  • (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
  • (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
  • (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
  • (v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
  • (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
  • (v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  • (v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
  • (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
  • (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
  • (v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
  • (v. i.) To steal money.
  • (n.) The act of striking.
  • (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
  • (n.) A bushel; four pecks.
  • (n.) An old measure of four bushels.
  • (n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
  • (n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
  • (n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
  • (n.) A puddler's stirrer.
  • (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
  • (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
  • (2) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (3) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
  • (4) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
  • (5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
  • (6) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
  • (7) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
  • (8) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
  • (9) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
  • (10) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (11) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
  • (12) Striking and consistent differences were found in the levels of acceptor activity in different tissues from both groups; these levels corresponded to their sensitivity to tumorigenesis by alkylating agents.
  • (13) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
  • (14) The results show that in both viral DNAs cleavage occurs at the origin and at one additional site which shows striking sequence homology with the origin region.
  • (15) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (16) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
  • (17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
  • (18) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
  • (19) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (20) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.