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Beating — can mean: *Beating, a Sailing term for making headway against the wind. *Beating up: hitting several or many times causing much bruising. **This is its usual meaning when it is a noun with a number or article, e.g. a beating . *Or see battery… … Wikipedia
Beating up — may refer to: * Systematic punching many times, or hitting with a blunt instrument, to enforce an order, inflict punishment, prevent the victim from resisting for a while, or release anger. Often two or more men take part, sometimes ith one or… … Wikipedia
Beating — (Silk) A simple operation in silk preparation which consists of beating the cocoons so that they open easily, and allow the fibres to be unwound. BEATING A wool term for the extra threads running loosely from the warp during weaving. They are… … Dictionary of the English textile terms
Beating — Beat ing, n. 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. [1913 Webster] 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. [1913 Webster] 3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See {Beat}, n. [1913 Webster] 4 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Beating-Up — The third primary movement of the loom when making cloth, and is the action of the reed as it drives each pick of weft to the fell of the cloth. The three primary movements are shedding, picking and beating up … Dictionary of the English textile terms
beating — index battery, defeat, failure (lack of success) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
beating — c.1200, beatunge action of inflicting blows, from BEAT (Cf. beat) (v.). Meaning pulsation is recorded from c.1600 … Etymology dictionary
beating — [bēt′iŋ] n. 1. the act of a person or thing that beats 2. a whipping or thrashing 3. a throbbing; pulsation 4. a defeat … English World dictionary
beating — n. 1) to give smb. a beating 2) to get, take a beating 3) a brutal, good, merciless, severe, vicious beating (he got a good beating) * * * [ biːtɪŋ] good merciless severe vicious beating (he got a good beating) a brutal … Combinatory dictionary
beating — [[t]bi͟ːtɪŋ[/t]] ♦♦♦ beatings 1) N COUNT If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick. ...the savage beating of a black motorist by white police officers... The team secured pictures of… … English dictionary
beating */ — UK [ˈbiːtɪŋ] / US [ˈbɪtɪŋ] noun [countable] Word forms beating : singular beating plural beatings 1) the act of hitting someone hard a number of times in a fight or as a punishment The man had been given a severe beating. 2) a bad defeat in a… … English dictionary
