Definition of Beating

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Beating

of Beat

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.

The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

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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

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
Tiger Woods

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.
Donald Trump

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

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

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
Rand Beers

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Robert De Niro

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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