beating
part of speech
noun (beatings)
meaning for a pupil
1) A beating is a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment. tree →
2) A beating is also a heavy defeat, as in «our team took a beating». tree →
3) Beating can mean the regular throb of a heart. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It can mean knocking olives off a tree with a stick, or threshing grain by hitting it. Interpretation: Isaiah compares the few left after judgment to olives left after the beating of the tree. Gideon was threshing wheat in secret when the angel came, and tradition notes God chose a frightened man to be a hero. In the primary lessons: in tales, cruel punishment; in sport, a loss; in stories, a heart full of kind feeling
examples
- For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, as at the beating of an olive-tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done. (Prophets ISA.24.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the angel of the LORD came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. (Prophets JDG.6.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- The bully gave him a beating. tree →
- Our team took a beating in the match. tree →
- I felt my heart's beating fast. tree →
- She had a beating from her husband. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- So play, laugh and enjoy beating the bot at your own riddles, and check anything that matters.
- When a game keeps beating you, a break and a drink of water help, because a tired, angry brain plays worse.
- Soon she was beating him on purpose instead of by accident.
- Teasing someone after beating them online can turn a game into a real fall-out.
- "Beat about the bush" means avoid saying something directly; it comes from hunters beating bushes to scare birds out.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beating» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.