beat
part of speech
verb (beat, beats, beat, beaten, beating); noun (a beat, beats); adjective (beat — informal, very tired)
meaning for a pupil
1) To beat is to win against someone. tree →
2) To beat is to hit again and again. tree →
3) To beat food is to mix it fast, like eggs. tree →
4) A beat is a regular sound or pulse, like the beat of a drum or a heart. tree →
5) Beat (informal) means very tired. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To hit or strike, to hammer metal, or to knock olives from a tree. Interpretation: The rule on beating the olive tree is read as a duty to leave the rest for the poor. The beaten fire-pans were hammered into a cover for the altar to remind Israel of Korah's rebellion. In the primary lessons: a comparison of scores or times between winner and loser; in music, beats per bar; in science, heartbeats per minute; phrases «beat by», «beat a record», «heartbeat», «on the beat», «beat it» (go away)
examples
- Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite, who dwelt in that hill-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah. (Torah NUM.14.45, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917) tree →
- When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world. (Writings PRO.23.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- And I will beat to pieces his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him. (Writings PSA.89.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.' (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The Lions beat the Tigers by 5 points. tree →
- She beat her record by 2 seconds. tree →
- He beat 3 eggs for the cake. tree →
- How many points did they need to beat 40? tree →
- My heart beats about 80 times a minute. tree →
- Clap to the beat of the music. tree →
- The rain beat on the window. tree →
- I'm beat after the long hike. tree →
- Can you beat my high score? tree →
- The drummer kept the beat. tree →
- Oh, how his heart did beat! tree →
note
«beat by» gives a difference: winner = loser + margin. Trap: to beat 40 you need at least 41. Past form «beat», past participle «beaten». «Beat» sounds like «beet» (a red vegetable). Hitting people or animals is wrong.
In the corpora
- Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
- And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-cover:
- Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
- And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
- And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.