beating

«beating» in Mova's school dictionary: a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 tales, cruel punishment; in sport, a loss; in stories, a heart full of kind feeling

examples

• 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.