different between shot vs beat

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophones: shott, chott

Etymology 1

From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skut?; compare scot.

Adjective

shot (comparative more shot, superlative most shot)

1. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
   • 1998, The Tragically Hip, "Thompson Girl", Phantom Power:

     Thompson girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel / Thompson girl, winterfighter's shot on the car as well

2. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.

3. Tired, weary.

4. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
5. Scarred silly or crazy of something or someone usually due to a traumatic experience with said fear.

Translations

Noun

shot (countable and uncountable, plural shots)

1. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.

   The shot was wide off the mark.

2. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.

   They took the lead on a last-minute shot.
3. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.

   The shot flew twenty metres, and nearly landed on the judge's foot.

5. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
6. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
7. Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim.

   I brought him hunting as he's a good shot.

   He'd make a bad soldier as he's a lousy shot.
8. An opportunity or attempt.

   I'd like just one more shot at winning this game.

   • 2009, David P. Murphy, Phil Torcivia, Rebecca Shockley, Such a Nice Guy

     You won't see me buying a round of Jägerbombs for girls half my age because I know when I have no shot.

9. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
   • 2003, Carla Marinucci, "On inauguration eve, 'Aaaarnold' stands tall," San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. (retrieved 18 Apr. 2009):

     Schwarzenegger also is taking nasty shots from his own party, as GOP conservatives bash some of his appointments as Kennedyesque and traitorous to party values.

10. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
11. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce)

    I'd like a shot of whisky in my coffee.

12. A single serving of espresso.
13. (archaic) A reckoning, a share of a tavern bill, etc.
    • The Fisher's Garland for 1835

      Yet still while I have got / Enough to pay the shot / Of Boniface, both gruff and greedy O!

14. (photography, film) A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.

    We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating.
15. (medicine) A vaccination or injection.

    I went to the doctor to get a shot for malaria.

16. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam).

    His solo shot in the seventh inning ended up winning the game.

17. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
18. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
19. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
20. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Expressions

• call the shots
• give something one's best shot
• shot in the arm

Translations

Verb

shot

1. simple past tense and past participle of shoot

Verb

shot (third-person singular simple present shots, present participle shotting, simple past and past participle shotted)

1. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.

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

Etymology 2

See scot (“a share”).

Noun

shot (plural shots)

1. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.

   Drink up. It's his shot.

Hyponyms

Translations

Etymology 3

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Interjection

shot

1. (colloquial, South Africa, New Zealand) Thank you.

Anagrams

• HOTs, TOSH, Thos., Tosh, host, hots, oths, tosh

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: shot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

shot n or m (plural shots, diminutive shotje n)

1. (film, photography) shot (sequence of frames)
2. shot (measure/serving of alcohol)

Derived terms

• shotglas

French

Noun

shot m (plural shots)

1. shot (small quantity of drink, especially alcohol)

Derived terms

• verre à shot

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ot/, [??ot?]

Noun

shot m (plural shots)

1. shot (small portion of drink)

   Synonym: chupito

Swedish

Noun

shot c

1. shot; measure of alcohol

Usage notes

In Sweden, the term "shot" usually refers to a measure of 4 or 6 cl of alcohol.

Declension

Related terms

• shotta

Anagrams

• hots

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