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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Beaten \Beat"en\, a.
1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. ``A broad
and beaten way.'' --Milton. ``Beaten gold.'' --Shak.
2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
3. Exhausted; tired out.
4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
資料來源 : WordNet®
beaten
adj 1: beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the
battered woman syndrome" [syn: {battered}]
2: formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
3: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from
the beaten path" [syn: {beaten(a)}]
beat
adj : very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed
after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long
trip" [syn: {all in(p)}, {beat(p)}, {bushed(p)}, {dead(p)}]
[also: {beaten}]
beat
n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days
a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by
name" [syn: {round}]
2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with
each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her
heart" [syn: {pulse}, {pulsation}, {heartbeat}]
3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has
a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: {rhythm},
{musical rhythm}]
4: a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two
waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to
the difference between the two oscillations
5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress
and behavior [syn: {beatnik}]
6: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: {meter},
{metre}, {measure}, {cadence}]
8: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
9: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam
pipe"
10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible
to the direction from which the wind is blowing
[also: {beaten}]
beat
v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi
beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the
competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last
football game" [syn: {beat out}, {crush}, {shell}, {trounce},
{vanquish}]
2: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a
punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up
when he walked down the street late at night"; "The
teacher used to beat the students" [syn: {beat up}, {work
over}]
3: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his
shoe"
4: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: {pound},
{thump}]
5: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
6: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: {drum}, {thrum}]
7: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating
down on us"
8: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings";
"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
[syn: {flap}]
9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in
the strong wind"
10: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
[syn: {scramble}]
11: strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great
emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's
breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
12: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure
beats work!"
13: avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: {bunk}]
14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were
ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: {tick},
{ticktock}, {ticktack}]
15: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were
flapping" [syn: {flap}]
16: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
"Beat the rhythm"
17: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the
city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: {pulsate},
{quiver}]
18: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the
forest"
19: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
20: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for
hunting
21: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She
outfoxed her competitors" [syn: {outwit}, {overreach}, {outsmart},
{outfox}, {circumvent}]
22: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
question really stuck me" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick},
{get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {pose}, {bewilder},
{flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
23: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm
beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: {exhaust},
{wash up}, {tucker}, {tucker out}]
[also: {beaten}]
beaten
See {beat}