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beating 音標拼音: [b'itɪŋ] n. 打,挫敗,搏動 打,挫敗,搏動 beating n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [ synonym: { beating}, { whipping}] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [ synonym: { beating}, { thrashing}, { licking}, { drubbing}, { lacing}, { trouncing}, { whacking}] Beat \ Beat\ ( b[= e] t), 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[= o] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Thou shalt beat some of it [ spices] very small. -- Ex. xxx. 36. [ 1913 Webster] They did beat the gold into thin plates. -- Ex. xxxix. 3. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. [ 1913 Webster] To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. [ 1913 Webster] A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To tread, as a path. [ 1913 Webster] Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. -- Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to. [ 1913 Webster] He beat them in a bloody battle. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. -- M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. [ 1913 Webster] Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of ( a person); as, it beats me why he would do that. [ 1913 Webster] 11. to evade, avoid, or escape ( blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap ( be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. [ 1913 Webster]
Beating \ Beat" ing\, n. 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See { Beat}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction. [ 1913 Webster] 216 Moby Thesaurus words for " beating": Waterloo, abrasion, alternate, arrhythmia, atomization, attrition, bang, barrage, bash, bastinado, basting, bat, battery, beat, belt, belting, biff, blow, bonk, brecciation, buffeting, cadenced, cadent, caning, chop, circling, clicking, clip, clout, clubbing, clump, collapse, comminution, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crack, crash, crumbling, crushing, cudgeling, cut, cyclic, dance, dash, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, detrition, dig, dint, disintegration, downfall, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, epochal, even, every other, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flap, flicker, flit, flitter, flogging, flop, flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, fusillade, fustigation, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, heartbeat, heartthrob, hiding, hit, horsewhipping, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, jab, knock, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, levigation, lick, licking, mashing, mastery, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pelt, periodical, pistol- whipping, pitapat, pitter- patter, plunk, poke, pound, pounding, powdering, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation, pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, punch, quietus, quiver, rap, rat- a- tat, rat- tat, rat- tat- tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rawhiding, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythm, rhythmic, roll, rotary, rout, rub- a- dub, ruff, ruffle, ruin, scourging, seasonal, serial, shake, shellacking, shredding, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, smashing, sock, spanking, spatter, spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, steady, strapping, stripes, stroke, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swat, swing, swingeing, swipe, switching, tat- tat, tattoo, tempo, thrashing, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack, ticking, tom- tom, trimming, trituration, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, undulant, undulatory, vanquishment, wavelike, waver, whack, wheeling, whipping, whop, yerk
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