beating  /b'itɪŋ/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  beating
  打,挫敗,搏動

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin
     to Icel. bauta, OHG. b?zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]
     1. 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.
  
              Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
                                                    --Ex. xxx. 36.
  
              They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.
                                                    xxxix. 3.
  
     2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
  
     3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the
        noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of
        rousing game.
  
              To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.
                                                    --Prior.
  
     4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
  
              A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     5. To tread, as a path.
  
              Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.
                                                    --Blackmore.
  
     6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,
        etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
  
              He beat them in a bloody battle.      --Prescott.
  
              For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.
                                                    Arnold.
  
     7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with
        out. [Colloq.]
  
     8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  
              Why should any one . . . beat his head about the
              Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
                                                    --Locke.
  
     9. (Mil.) 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.
        See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.
  
     {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower
        price; to force down. [Colloq.]
  
     {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.
  
     {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.
  
     {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.
  
     {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give
        it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it
        to this day.'' --South.
  
     {To beat the dust}. (Man.)
        (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a
            horse.
        (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
  
     {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.
  
     {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering
        agitation.
  
     {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the
        motion of the hand or foot.
  
     {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to
        beat up an enemy's quarters.
  
     Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;
          baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;
          defeat; vanquish; overcome.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Beating \Beat"ing\, n.
     1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or
        chastisement by blows.
  
     2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
  
     3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See {Beat}, n.
  
     4. (Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks
        in zigzag direction.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  beating
       adj : expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of
             the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating
             heart" [syn: {pulsating}, {pulsing}]
       n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: {whipping}]
       2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
          blows [syn: {thrashing}, {licking}, {drubbing}, {lacing},
          {trouncing}, {whacking}]