ALL meanings of beating
beat·ing
B b - countable noun beating If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick. 3
- singular noun beating 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. 3
- noun beating a whipping or thrashing, as in punishment 3
- noun beating a defeat or setback 3
- noun beating the act of a person or thing that beats 3
- noun beating a whipping or thrashing 3
- noun beating a throbbing; pulsation 3
- noun beating a defeat 3
- noun beating punishment by hitting 1
- noun beating defeat 1
- adjective beating sun: very hot 1
- noun beating a stroke or blow. 1
- noun beating the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums. 1
- noun beating a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute. 1
- noun beating the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement. 1
- noun beating one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat. 1
- noun beating Music. the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance. 1
- noun beating Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone. 1
- noun beating Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry. 1
- noun beating Physics. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations. 1
- noun beating Journalism. the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals. Compare exclusive (def 13), scoop (def 9). Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering. 1
- noun beating a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi. 1
- noun beating (often initial capital letter) Informal. beatnik. 1
- verb with object beating to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly. 1
- verb with object beating to dash against: rain beating the trees. 1
- verb with object beating to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings. 1
- noun beating A punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly. 1
- verb with object beating to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo. 1
- verb with object beating to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well. 1
- verb with object beating to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares. 1
- verb with object beating to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him. 1
- verb with object beating to make (a path) by repeated treading. 1
- verb with object beating to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims viciously before robbing them. 1
- verb with object beating Music. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome. 1
- verb with object beating Hunting. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game. 1
- verb with object beating to overcome in a contest; defeat. 1
- verb with object beating to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda. 1
- verb with object beating to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line. 1
- verb with object beating to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job. 1
- verb with object beating to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand. 1
- verb with object beating to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values. 1
- verb with object beating Slang. to swindle; cheat (often followed by out): He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal. 1
- verb with object beating to escape or avoid (blame or punishment). 1
- verb with object beating Textiles. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed. 1
- verb without object beating to strike repeated blows; pound. 1
- verb without object beating to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster. 1
- verb without object beating to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on): rain beating against the windows. 1
- verb without object beating to resound under blows, as a drum. 1
- verb without object beating to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat? 1
- verb without object beating to play, as on a drum. 1