Difference between Beat and Flap

What is the difference between Beat and Flap?

Beat as a verb is to hit; to knock; to pound; to strike. while Flap as a verb is to move something broad and loose back and forth, as flap its wings

Beat

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (gay slang) fabulous exhausted

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel someone in a particular, competitive event. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip. (impersonal): It beats X Y = X cannot understand Y, where Y is an indirect question.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A pulsation or throb. 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. A rhythm. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays). The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat. In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.). A small part of a dramatic play. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music. A beatnik.

Example sentence: If you want to be the best, you've got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who's going to be left to fight? That's what I want to know.

Flap

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to move something broad and loose back and forth, as flap its wingsto move loosely back and forth

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.An upset, stir, scandal or controversyThe motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or the flap of a wingA disease in the lips of horses.A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.Vagina

We hope you now know whether to use Beat or Flap in your sentence.

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