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Definition of Beating

Beating

  1. of Beat
  2. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
  3. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
  4. Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
  5. The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Beating Quotations

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen
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Beating Translations

beating in French is abattant, pulsation, battant
beating in Latin is pulsus
beating in Spanish is paliza, pulsacion
beating in Swedish is avbasning, stryk

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