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
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
- 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
- So play, laugh and enjoy beating the bot at your own riddles, and check anything that matters.
- A family password, a silly word that is not online anywhere, beats a fake voice.
- It was reported that an AI beat a world champion at the board game Go, after learning by playing enormous numbers of games.
- Counting letter by letter, slowly, beats guessing quickly, and you can show each step.
- A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; groups often rush when they get excited.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.