Etymology : Middle English beten, from Old English bEatan; akin to Old High German bOzan to beat
Pronunciation : 'bEt
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. striking, hitting; defeating. beating\beat"ing\ , n.
2. the act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
3. pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
4. (acoustics & mus.) pulsative sounds. see:
beat, n.
5. (naut.) the process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.beating expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart" [syn: pulsating, pulsing] n.
6. the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: whipping].
7. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: thrashing, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking].
8. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
9. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
10. Pulsative sounds.
11. See Beat, n.
12. The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows the act of overcoming or outdoing expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart".
13. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
14. To punish by blows; to thrash.
15. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
16. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
17. To tread, as a path.
18. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
19. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; often with out.
20. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
21. To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.
22. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
23. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
24. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
25. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.
26. To be in agitation or doubt.
27. To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
28. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
29. To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
30. 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.
31. A stroke; a blow.
32. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
33. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked.
34. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
35. A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
36. A sudden swelling or reënforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison.
37. See Beat, v. i., 8.
38. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
39. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
40. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
41. Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
42. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
43. The act of one that beats a person or thing The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
44. The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
45. A smart tap on the adversary's blade. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" strike repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting strike repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!".
46. 1. If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick. the savage beating of a black motorist by white police officers The team secured pictures of prisoners showing signs of severe beatings.
47. If something such as a business, a political party, or a team takes a beating, it is defeated by a large amount in a competition or election. Our firm has taken a terrible beating in recent years.
48. If you say that something will take some beating, you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made. For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
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