different between beat vs bank

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?t, IPA^(key): /bi?t/
• Homophone: beet
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English beten, from Old English b?atan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd- (“to hit, strike”).

Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confut? (“I strike down”), f?stis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian ???? (but?)).

Noun

beat (plural beats)

1. A stroke; a blow.

   • He, […] with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

2. A pulsation or throb.

3. (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.
4. A rhythm.
   1. (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
5. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
6. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
7. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
8. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
   1. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
   2. (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
      • 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic

        As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.

9. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
   • 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24

     It's a beat on the whole country.

10. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

11. (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
12. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
    1. (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
13. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

14. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
    • 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport

      Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.

15. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
16. (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Pennsylvania German: biede

Translations

See also

• (piece of hip-hop music): track

Verb

beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or beat)

1. (transitive) To hit; strike

   Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit
2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than; to excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
6. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

9. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

   Synonym: negotiate

10. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

11. To tread, as a path.
12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
13. To be in agitation or doubt.
14. To make a sound when struck.

15. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

16. 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. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

18. (intransitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.

    Synonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate

19. (transitive, slang) To rob.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)

1. (US slang) exhausted

2. dilapidated, beat up

3. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup

4. (slang) boring
5. (slang, of a person) ugly

Synonyms

• (exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
• (dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
• (boring): See also Thesaurus:boring
• (ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly

Translations

Etymology 2

From beatnik

Noun

beat (plural beats)

1. A beatnik.
   • 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008

     The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.

Derived terms

• beat generation

References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• Bate, Beta, Teba, abet, bate, beta

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin be?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /be?at/
• Rhymes: -at

Adjective

beat (feminine beata, masculine plural beats, feminine plural beates)

1. saint, beatified

Derived terms

• beateria

Noun

beat m (plural beats)

1. monk

Related terms

• beatífic

Further reading

• “beat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “beat” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “beat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “beat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English beat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bit/
• Hyphenation: beat
• Rhymes: -it
• Homophones: bied, biedt, biet

Noun

beat m (plural beats, diminutive beatje n)

1. A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
2. (music) beat an early rock genre.

Derived terms

• beatmis
• beatmuziek

Anagrams

• bate

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English beat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?t/, [?bi?t?]

Noun

beat

1. (music) beat

Declension

Synonyms

• biitti

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English beat.

Adjective

beat (invariable)

1. beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)

Noun

beat m (invariable)

1. beat (rhythm accompanying music)

Anagrams

• beta

Latin

Verb

beat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of be?

Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin bibitus (“drunk”), from Latin bib? (“drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be?at]

Adjective

beat m or n (feminine singular beat?, masculine plural be?i, feminine and neuter plural bete)

1. drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy

Declension

Synonyms

• îmb?tat
• b?ut

Antonyms

• treaz

Derived terms

• be?ie

Related terms

• bea
• be?iv
• îmb?ta

Volapük

Noun

beat (nominative plural beats)

1. happiness

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• banck, bancke, banke (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench.

Noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

   Synonyms: banker, banque

4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

     Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

9. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: bang

Borrowings

Some may be via other European languages.

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

2. (transitive) To put into a bank.

3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Derived terms

• bankable
• banked
• banker
• banking
• bank on

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bank, from Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

2. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

3. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

   the banks of Newfoundland

4. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
5. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
6. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
7. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

   The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

8. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
9. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
10. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

    Ores are brought to bank.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bench

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

   • Aristoma?chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
8. (rail transport, Britain) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Derived terms

• bank-and-turn indicator, turn-and-bank indicator

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Synonyms

• (row or panel of items): (row) line, rank, tier; (panel) block, grid, panel

Derived terms

• double-bank
• filter bank, filterbank
• optical bank
• phone bank

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
   • 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas

     Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

6. (uncountable) slang for money

Derived terms

• Bank Royal
• Common Bank

Related terms

• banc
• banquette
• frank bank

References

• “bank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Knab, knab, nabk

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Etymology 1

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bench, couch

Derived terms

• onder stoele of banke wegsteek
• toonbank

Etymology 2

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

Verb

bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
2. (intransitive) to bank

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from French banque.

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Further reading

• “bank” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque

Noun

bank

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

Noun

bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)

Declension

Derived terms

• bankanvisning
• bankier
• bankør

Descendants

• ? Faroese: banki
• ? Greenlandic: banki
• ? Icelandic: banki

Etymology 2

From German Bank (“bench”).

Noun

bank c

1. only used in certain expressions

Derived terms

• over en bank

Noun

bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
2. (pl) a beating

Declension

Synonyms

• (beating): tæsk, tæv

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. bench
2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa

   Synonym: sofa

3. place where seashells are found
4. shallow part of the sea near the coast

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
  • ? Aukan: bangi
  • ? Caribbean Hindustani: bángi
  • ? Saramaccan: bángi

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. A bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) The bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
3. A banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
4. A bank, collection and/or repository.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Aukan: banku
• ? Caribbean Hindustani: bánk
• ? Malay: bank
  • Indonesian: bank
  • ? Central Dusun: bank
  • ? Central Melanau: bank
  • ? Makasar: bank
  • ? Javanese: bang
  • ? Sundanese: bank
• ? Saramaccan: bánku
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
• ? West Frisian: bank
• ? Dutch: bankje, bankie (diminutive)
  • ? Sranan Tongo: barki
    • ? Dutch: barkie

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Bank, from Italian banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bank (plural bankok)

1. bank (financial institution)

   Synonym: pénzintézet

2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• bank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• bank in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau??k/
• Rhymes: -au??k

Noun

bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

1. knock, blow

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bank (“bank”), from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of bangku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bank

1. bank:
   1. an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Derived terms

• perbankan

Compounds

Further reading

• “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Etymology

From French banque

Pronunciation

Noun

bank m (plural banek)

1. bank

Noun

bank m (plural bankijiet)

1. bench

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. the bank of a river or lake

Descendants

• English: bank

References

• “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the verb banke

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a beat, knock, throb

Derived terms

• hjertebank

Etymology 3

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

References

• “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bank_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “bank_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

References

• “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• panch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

Noun

bank f

1. bench

Descendants

• Middle High German: banc, bank
  • German: Bank
    • ? Danish: bank
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: bank
  • Luxembourgish: Bänk
  • Pennsylvania German: Bank
• ? Old French: banc
  • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: banc
  • ? Middle English: bank, banke
    • English: bank
  • ? Galician: banco
  • ? Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
• ? Old Italian: banco, banca
  • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
    • ? Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Byzantine Greek: ?????? (pánkos)
    • Greek: ?????? (págkos)
  • ? Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
  • ? German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
• ? Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

Polish

Etymology

From Italian banco via German Bank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Noun

bank m inan

1. bank

Declension

Derived terms

• bankowy
• bankowo??
• bankier

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: bank (bank)
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (bank)

References

Further reading

• bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovene

Noun

bánk

1. inflection of bánka:
   1. genitive dual
   2. genitive plural

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??k/

Etymology

From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank c

1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
2. a bank (place of storage)
3. a bank (of a river of lake)
4. a sandbank

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Elfdalian: baunka
• ? Finnish: pankki

References

• bank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French banc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bench (long seat)

Declension

Volapük

Noun

bank (nominative plural banks)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension