different between beat vs kick

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/, [k??k]
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English kiken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *k?-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German k?ken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

Verb

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

1. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.

   Did you kick your brother?

   • 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith, Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,

     I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.

   • 1905, Fielding H. Yost, Football for Player and Spectator, Chapter 6,

     A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.

   • 1919, Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift,

     Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
2. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.

   He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, Chapter 1: My Early Home

     Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.

   • 1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, The Bobbsey Twins, Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,

     "If you did that, I'd kick," answered Freddie, and began to kick real hard into the air.

3. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.

   Kick the ball into the goal.

   • 1905, Fielding H. Yost, Football for Player and Spectator, Chapter 7,

     Sometimes he can kick the ball forward along the ground until it is kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.

4. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
   • 1936 October, Robert E. Howard, The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts, published in Action Stories

     "He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."

   • 1976 February 3, Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists,

     They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
5. (intransitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.

   He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.

6. (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).

   I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.

7. To move or push suddenly and violently.

   He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.

   • 2011, Tom Andry, Bob Moore: No Hero

     The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.

8. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
   • 2003, Jennifer C. D. Groomes, The Falcon Project, page 174,

     Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.

   • 2006, Daniel D. Scherschel, Maple Grove, page 81,

     I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick"?

9. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
10. (intransitive, cycling) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.

    Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.

11. (intransitive) To show opposition or resistance.
12. (printing, historical) To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.

Descendants

• ? German: kicken
• ? Welsh: cicio

Translations

Noun

kick (plural kicks)

1. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.

   A kick to the knee.

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stable-Beer Dives,

     A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]

     Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.

2. The action of swinging a foot or leg.

   The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.

3. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.

   I finally saw the show. What a kick!

   I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.

4. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
5. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.

   The car had a nasty kick the whole way.

   The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.

6. (uncountable and countable) Piquancy.
   • 2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations, Fireside, ?ISBN, page 124 [2]:

     Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.

   • 2003, Sheree Bykofsky and Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails, Adams Media, ?ISBN, page 129 [3]:

     For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.

   • 2007 August 27, Anthony Lane, "Lone Sailors", The New Yorker, volume 83, Issues 22-28

     The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.

7. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
8. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
9. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.

   a long kick up the field.

10. A recoil of a gun.
11. (informal) Pocket.
12. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
13. (film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kick.

Descendants

• ? German: Kick
• ? Irish: cic

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Shortening of kick the bucket.

Verb

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

1. (intransitive) To die.

Etymology 3

Shortening of kick ass

Verb

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

1. (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.

   That band really kicks.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English kick.

Noun

kick m (plural kicks)

1. kick, thrill (something that excites or gives pleasure)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kick

1. first-person singular present indicative of kicken
2. imperative of kicken

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?k]
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

kick

1. singular imperative of kicken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of kicken