Definitions for beating

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beating beat·ing

Spelling: [bee-ting]

IPA: /ˈbi tɪŋ/

Beating is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in beating (abegint).

Definitions for beating

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that beats, as to punish, clean, mix, etc.:
2. a defeat or reverse; loss; setback:
3. pulsation; throbbing:
4. a stroke or blow.
5. the sound made by one or more such blows:
6. a throb or pulsation:
7. the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.
8. one's assigned or regular path or habitual round:
9. 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.
10. Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions:
11. Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi.
15. (often initial capital letter) Informal. beatnik.

Idioms

1. beat all, Informal. to surpass anything of a similar nature, especially in an astonishing or outrageous way:
2. beat a retreat. retreat (def 12).
3. beat around / about the bush. bush1 (def 16).
4. beat it, Informal. to depart; go away:
5. beat the air / wind, to make repeated futile attempts.
6. beat the rap. rap1 (def 17).
7. off one's beat, outside of one's routine, general knowledge, or range of experience:
8. on the beat, in the correct rhythm or tempo:

adjective

1. Informal. exhausted; worn out.
2. (often initial capital letter) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.

Verb phrases

1. beat about, to search through; scour: Nautical. to tack into the wind.
2. beat back, to force back; compel to withdraw:
3. beat down, to bring into subjection; subdue. Informal. to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something:
4. beat off, to ward off; repulse: Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
5. beat out, Informal. to defeat; win or be chosen over: Carpentry. to cut (a mortise). to produce hurriedly, especially by writing or typing: Baseball. (of a hitter) to make (an infield ground ball or bunt) into a hit:
6. beat up, Also, beat up on. to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: British Informal. to find or gather; scare up:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
2. to dash against:
3. to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against:
4. to sound, as on a drum:
5. to stir vigorously:
6. to break, forge, or make by blows:
7. to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts:
8. to make (a path) by repeated treading.
9. to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously:
10. Music. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.
11. Hunting. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.
12. to overcome in a contest; defeat.
13. to win over in a race:
14. to be superior to:
15. to be incomprehensible to; baffle:
16. to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved:
17. to mitigate or offset the effects of:
18. Slang. to swindle; cheat (often followed by out):
19. to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).
20. Textiles. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.

verb (used without object)

1. to strike repeated blows; pound.
2. to throb or pulsate:
3. to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on):
4. to resound under blows, as a drum.
5. to achieve victory in a contest; win:
6. to play, as on a drum.
7. to scour cover for game.
8. Physics. to make a beat or beats.
9. (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping:
10. Nautical. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.

Origin of beating

First recorded in 1200-50, beating is from the Middle English word betynge. See beat, -ing¹

Examples for beating

What she read in the man's eyes set the woman's heart to beating with a new delight.

Doctors will likely check more than one location for pulses to determine if the heart is beating.

Either you'd back down or else you'd give the man a beating.

Of course, conservative activists took a beating when they tried this in Arizona last year.

And it is true that since Blair was in power the pub culture has taken a beating.

I was hunkered down in my seat in the Municipalidad del Cuzco and thrilled—my heart was beating so fast!

(b) Why should egg whites not be allowed to stand after beating?

She must do something to tone down the beating of her heart.

In the Bible, Moses does kill a guy—the Egyptian slave master who is beating an Israelite to death.

"These are the beating Friars, otherwise called the Flagellants," quoth he.