Beat and Cycle

Beat

Beat noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.

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Cycle and beat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cycle" instead a noun "Beat".

Nearby Words: beaten, beating, beater, beatable

Cycle noun - A series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order.

Usage example: the cycle of birth, growth, decline, and death that is experienced by all life forms

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Beat and cycle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead a noun "Cycle".

Nearby Words: cyclic, cycling, cyclically, cyclical, cycled

old	old beat	old cycle
long	long beat	long cycle
similar	similar beat	similar cycle
normal	normal beat	normal cycle
Other adjectives: typical, short, standard, original, single, obvious, actual, constant, slow, bad, quick, daily, general, next, basic, last, different, recurring, local.

While the PSP never beat the DS worldwide, toward the end of the DS's life cycle, it began to match and beat the Nintendo handheld within the Japanese market.

Source: Useful Notes / The Seventh Generation of Console Video Games
The latter one takes some metagaming to beat, because you have to capture the point within 10 turns, and you'll need at least five to see the whole cycle of the enemy's movement. Solution?

Source: Video Game / Frozen Synapse
Considering the cycle of re-birth they undergo every time you beat the game, not to mention their clothes are red or white with yellow designs.

Source: Video Game / Journey

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