What's the difference between beating and drumbeat?
Beating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beat
(n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
(n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
(n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
(n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
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.
Drumbeat
Definition:
(n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s been a constant drumbeat: ‘Leave the union.
(2) Despite the drumbeat of austerity, money will be found.
(3) Yet the wall, just like the beatings, arrests and forced demolitions before it, only amplified the steady drumbeat of marches and petitions.
(4) "The counterpoint to the ongoing wars of aggression and the drumbeat heralding a 'clash of civilisations' is the desire of ordinary people in the west and in the Arab world to engage with each other," the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif said at the time.
(5) This official had been due to go on the record earlier this week with his legal opinion – in an attempt to create a "drumbeat" of pressure – but his wife forbade him from going public with such an attack on the prime minister.
(6) But throughout it you could hear the steady drumbeat of pressure from his paid advisers, most of his shadow cabinet colleagues and many of his close circle.
(7) David Cameron is to be hailed for sticking to his guns and allocating 0.7% of the budget to aid but let us never forget the drumbeat of rage and derision that envelopes him all the while because of this, his most domestically unpopular policy position.
(8) Within a year or two, however, Presley and his kind were pushing country acts down the bill, and by the end of the 50s Johnnie & Jack were simply Opry regulars with an occasional minor hit record, such as Stop the World (and Let Me Off) in 1958 and the folky Sailor Man (1959), which borrowed its martial drumbeat from Johnny Horton's recent huge hit The Battle of New Orleans.
(9) To the Tory heartland it continues its incessant drumbeat of being "tough" in "lean" times.
(10) The bombings will be seen as an attack on ordinary Arabs, rather than Saddam.” As the drumbeat to war echoed around the corridors of Downing Street, others in MI6 disregarded Allen’s warnings, seduced by wildly exaggerated intelligence claims about Iraq’s weapons programme – claims they knew would be welcomed by the government.
(11) This is the real cost of the way the politics of border control has become a constant drumbeat in the cacophony of daily political discourse.
(12) She said Miliband was well-meaning but she could discern the "steady drumbeat of pressure" to move to the right from some of his inner circle in response to Ukip.
(13) The injured and lifeless are retrieved, that melodic drumbeat thuds again in the children’s mouths, and within moments the crowd has returned to its starting position, readying themselves for another reckless push into the unknown.
(14) Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making the case against the Iran nuclear deal.” In a speech that also drew comparisons with the cold war arms talks of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, the president warned against heeding the “drumbeat of war” from “lobbyists and pundits ... transformed into armchair nuclear scientists, challenging real experts”.
(15) For two weeks Tripoli has echoed to the drumbeat of artillery, tank fire and rockets as rival militias trade fire, much of it landing on innocent civilians.
(16) The drumbeat has been so consistent it has spawned a yes poster that serves as a reply, one that feeds into the perennial SNP claim that unionists are people who simply don't believe in the Scots and their potential: "Don't let them tell us we can't."
(17) But the daily drumbeat of negative claims about the EU is creating a momentum towards exit that may become unstoppable.
(18) A long, low hum, dressed up by drumbeats, ebbed and flowed throughout, rising to ear-splitting levels at the end.
(19) The individuals who spoke out – part of what Brown critics accepted was a "drumbeat" – intervened despite reports of considerable pressure from the government whipping operation.
(20) And throughout this campaign, there has been a drumbeat denouncing “the Westminster elite”, castigating all politicians, along with anyone in authority or in a public position of expertise, as either a liar or the corrupt dupe of a wicked Brussels conspiracy.