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What (who) is BEATINGS - definition
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Beat
·noun A stroke; a blow.
II. Beat ·Impf of Beat.
III. Beat ·p.p. of Beat.
IV. Beat ·vt To tread, as a path.
V. Beat ·vi To be in agitation or doubt.
VI. Beat ·adj Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
VII. Beat ·vi To move with pulsation or throbbing.
VIII. Beat ·vi A place of habitual or frequent resort.
IX. Beat ·vi To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
X. Beat ·vt To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
XI. Beat ·add. ·noun A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
XII. Beat ·vt To punish by blows; to Thrash.
XIII. Beat ·add. ·noun The act of one that beats a person or thing.
XIV. Beat ·vi A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
XV. Beat ·vi To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
XVI. Beat ·vi To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
XVII. Beat ·add. ·noun One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
XVIII. Beat ·noun A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
XIX. Beat ·vi A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade;
- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
XX. Beat ·noun A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
XXII. Beat ·vi To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
XXIII. Beat ·vi To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
XXIV. Beat ·vt To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, ·etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to Surpass.
XXV. Beat ·vt To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, ·etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
XXVI. Beat ·add. ·noun The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
XXVII. Beat ·add. ·noun The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
XXVIII. Beat ·noun The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
- often with out.
XXX. Beat ·vi 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.
XXXI. Beat ·vt 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.
XXXII. Beat ·vt 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.
XXXIII. Beat ·noun A sudden swelling or reenforcement 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. ·see Beat, ·vi, 8.
beat
I
n.
a regularly traversed round
1) to patrol, walk one's beat
2) to cover one's beat
3) a policeman's beat
rhythm
4) an irregular; regular, steady beat
5) to a beat (to dance to the beat of jungle music)
unit of rhythm
6) a beat to (four beats to a measure)
II
v.
1) to beat brutally, mercilessly, severely, viciously
2) (d; intr., tr.) ('to strike') to beat against (the bird beat its wings against the bars of its cage; the waves beat against the rocks)
3) (d; tr.) ('to hammer') to beat into (to beat facts into smb.'s head; to beat swords into plowshares)
4) (d; tr.) ('to strike') to beat into. to (to beat smb. into submission; to beat smb. to death)
5) (d; intr.) ('to strike') to beat on (smb. was beating on the door)
6) (colloq.) (D; tr.) ('to arrive ahead of') to beat to (I'll beat you to the car!)
7) (N; used with an adjective) ('to strike') they beat him unconscious
8) (slang) (R) ('to astound') it beats me that they turned down the invitation
beat
¦ verb (past beat; past participle beaten)
1. strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or punish them.
strike repeatedly so as to make a noise.
flatten or shape (metal) by striking it repeatedly with a hammer.
2. defeat in a game or other competitive situation.
surpass (a record or score).
overcome (a problem).
informal baffle: it beats me how you manage it.
3. (of the heart) pulsate.
4. (of a bird) move (the wings) up and down.
5. stir (cooking ingredients) vigorously.
6. move across (an area of land) repeatedly striking at the ground cover in order to raise game birds for shooting.
7. Sailing sail into the wind, with repeated tacking.
¦ noun
1. a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry.
a rhythm or rhythmic sound or movement.
a pulsation of the heart.
a periodic variation of sound or amplitude due to the combination of two sounds or other vibrations with similar but not identical frequencies.
2. the movement of a bird's wings.
3. an area allocated to a police officer and patrolled on foot.
a spell of duty allocated to a police officer.
a stretch of water fished by an angler.
4. a brief pause or moment of hesitation.
¦ adjective informal completely exhausted.
Phrases
beat about the bush discuss a matter without coming to the point.
beat the bounds historical mark parish boundaries by walking round them and striking certain points with rods.
beat the clock perform a task within a fixed time limit.
beat a (hasty) retreat withdraw.
beat time indicate or follow a musical tempo with a baton or other means.
off the beaten track in or into an isolated place.
to beat the band informal, chiefly N. Amer. so as to surpass all competition.
Phrasal verbs
beat someone down force someone to reduce the price of something.
beat it informal leave a place.
beat off vulgar slang (of a man) masturbate.
beat someone/thing off succeed in resisting an attacker or an attack.
beat someone up assault someone by hitting them repeatedly.
?(beat oneself up) informal reproach or criticize oneself excessively.
beat up on someone North American way of saying beat someone up.
Derivatives
beatable adjective
beating noun
Origin
OE beatan, of Gmc origin.
Examples of use of BEATINGS
1. Beatings Many deportees accused Iranian security forces of inhumane treatment, including beatings and torture in detention.
2. The videotaped beatings come as one–time death row inmates fight in court for restitution over alleged beatings.
3. The beatings have brought international criticism.
4. The defendants and their lawyers had made no previous complaints about beatings and officials never saw signs of beatings, he said.
5. Biscet has endured repeated harassment, beatings and detentions," Bush continued.