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Definition: Beating |
BeatingAdjective1. Expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart". Noun1. The act of overcoming or outdoing. 2. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A wave phenomenon in which two or more periodic quantities of different frequencies produce a resultant having pulsations of amplitude.This process may be controlled to produce a desired beat frequency. See heterodyne . (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The restocking of failed areas in a crop or stand by further sowings or plantings. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Group of extra warp yarns which are not woven. They are used to replace broken yarns and to darn. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Operation whereby the staple opening and cleaning of some textile fibres is completed and the distribution of the fibres into the card web is regularized. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A treatment which consists in submitting the stock to the action of a beater. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A mechanical treatment for the purpose of improving the ability of the fibres to form paper. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | In massage, percussion movements in which the half-closed fists are brought down alternately in a rapid succession of blows. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | The phenomenon that results from the linear or non-linear superposition of two or more waves of the same kind but of different frequencies. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BeatingSynonyms: pulsating (adj), pulsing (adj), drubbing (n), lacing (n), thrashing (n), trouncing (n), whacking (n), whipping (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Phrase: the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins; the eye glistening - "in a fine frenzy rolling"; the head turned; "when the going gets tough, the tough get going". |
Failure | Repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate. |
Feeling | Phrase: the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking; the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy). |
Impulse | Percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge; (attack); beating; (punishment). |
Punishment | Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They took turns beating him Until there was nothing left they cared to beat (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Once you remove Mr. Bonds heart, there should just be enough time for him to watch it stop beating! (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) It's one billionth our size and it's beating us. (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool) Yeah I know what you'd like to do. You'd like to find the guy who did it, rip his still beating heart out of his chest and hold it in front of his face so he can see how black it is before he dies (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) You're always beating me (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) | |
Lyrics | Lying close to you feeling your heart beating (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie) They're beating plowshares into swords (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley) I used to be a heart beating for someone (Philadelphia Freedom; performing artist: Elton John) Is the beating of your heart (Breathe; performing artist: Faith Hill) | |
Clever | Love is the unity of two hearts beating together as one. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beating the Book (1926) The Beating He Needed (1912) Beating (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Beating Heart" (movie) by Hassan Sedaghat. |  | [Russian Poster: two scenes washing clothes outdoors; children skating in winter: women beating clothes]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "Beating round 'Cape Freward': Straits of Magellan, Dec: 1854". Artwork, signed by "J.Y.T.". Credit: NAVY. |  | Man rolling out "List of Illustrations" carpet; woman beating "List of Illustrations" rug. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Beating him to the punch. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Robbers, "excess profits tax" and "income tax," beating up the consumer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Jesse Owens beating George Case in 100-yard dash at Cleveland Stadium. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sculpture of an African American man beating a small drum] / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by A.B. Bogart.. |
 | Woman beating cassava, Jamaica. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Horace Foreman, Morse, Louisiana, his son is beating a bass(?) obligato on the fiddle strings with two sticks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Drum beating. | | Beating drum. |
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| Author | Quotation |
H. W. Beecher | Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart. |
James Wolfe | The General [Wolfe]...repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy...adding, as he concluded, that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow. |
Montaigne | The role of true victory is in fighting, not in coming off safely; and the honor of valor consists in combating, not in beating. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His youth, decamping long before its time, was beating a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and displaying no loss of fire |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The square closes up and the dancing starts, feet on the bare ground, beating dull, strike with your heels |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Instead of beating, the heart quivers. (references) | |
About 2 to 3 percent die each year because the heart suddenly stops beating. (references) | ||
Atrial fibrillation is irregular beating of the left atrium, or left upper chamber, of the heart. (references) | ||
Children | Uganda | Most schools use corporal punishment, although in 1997 the Government banned the beating of secondary school students. (references) |
Turkey | Instances of child beating and abuse were reported more frequently than in previous years, according to women's groups. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Neighbors expressed their disapproval of police actions and attempted to stop the police from beating and kicking the dissidents. (references) |
Economic History | Pakistan | Similarly, the government moved to restrict press criticism and ordered the arrest and beating of prominent journalists. (references) |
Russia | There are credible reports of beating and torturing of inmates and detainees by law enforcement and correctional officials. (references) | |
Czech Republic | On November 17,1989, the communist police violently broke up a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration, brutally beating many student participants. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | The method most often used is beating. (references) |
Peru | They allowed him to go home after the beating. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Julhash's body showed signs of a severe beating. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | In August 2000, Anastazia Balazova, a Roma woman, died of injuries from a beating by unknown assailants in her Zilina home. (references) |
Bulgaria | Later the same night, a large group of Orthodox believers attacked the Evangelical's camp, vandalizing it and beating the Evangelicals. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burkina Faso | Killing or severe beating of criminal suspects by vigilante mobs remained common. (references) |
Political Rights | Jamaica | These problems persisted in the December 1997 election, despite the best efforts of the security forces, which were credited with controlling violence such as the beating of voters, and reducing election malpractice such as the theft of ballot boxes from polling places. (references) |
Women | Kazakhstan | The maximum sentence for wife beating is 3 years. (references) |
Rwanda | Wife beating and domestic violence occur frequently. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Saudi Arabia | Many foreign domestic servants flee work situations that include forced confinement, beating and other physical abuse, withholding of food, and rape. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | While it uncovered our portion of hateful selfishness at home, it also revealed the heart of America as sound and fearless, and beating in confidence unfailing. |
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| "Beating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 78.92% of the time. "Beating" is used about 1,152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 78.92% | 909 | 7,890 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.99% | 242 | 19,213 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "beating": A beating wind ♦ beating of eggs ♦ beating of wings ♦ beating out ♦ beating up ♦ fatal beating ♦ get a beating ♦ give a beating ♦ machine for beating the backs of fabrics ♦ speak without beating about the business ♦ take a beating ♦ take some beating ♦ woman beating. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beating": beating-in, beating-reed instrument, beating-up. | |
Ending with "beating": breast-beating, chest-beating, wife-beating, world-beating. | |
Containing "beating": two-hearts-beating-as-one. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "beating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tundje (agitation, flourish, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, misdoubt, nutation, oscillation, reel, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, shimmy, sway, swing, teeter, thrill, tossing, waddle, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle, wiggle-waggle), të rrahurit, rrahje (affray, clap, fighting, flap, hiding, lacing, leathering, licking, mix in, Pat, percussion, pulse, quiver, scramble, stroke, throb, toweling), masazh (massage). (various references) | |
Arabic | هزيمة (debacle, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, overthrow, repulse, reverse, rout, thrashing, trimming, wall), نبضي (pulsing, systaltic), قرع (bang, banging, beat, chide, drum, hitting, knock, knocking, rap, rapping, ring, sound, striking, tap, toll), سحق (bash, batter, beat, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), طرق (bang, enter, knock, knock repeatedly, knocking, percuss, percussion, pounding, puncture, rap, tool), ضربة (bang, belt, biff, blow, bob, bump, chap, clout, hurt, inflexion, infliction, lash, pelt, plug, pulse, shot, smack, sock, strike, stroke, tank, thrust, wipe), خفق (baulk, beat, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), الضارب (bat, striking), الضرب (flogging). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удряне (bash, impact, knocking, stroke), туптене (pulsation, thrill, throb, tingle, vibration), биене (horsing, lashing, pelt, pulsation, thrill, throb, tick, tick-tack), поражение (backdown, baffle, defeat, failure, injury, knockout, lesion, overturn, repulse, reverse, smash, walloping, whipping), побой (battery, thrashing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 脈欂 , 拍" (swat). (various references) | |
Czech | bití (ictus, whipping), výprask (going-over, hiding, leathering, licking, thrashing, threshing, whipping), porážka (defeat, reverse, slaughter). (various references) | |
Danish | beating, banke (hit, knock, strike), stofmalning, stød (push), slå (beat, cut, hit, mow, strike), malning, efterbedring (after-culture, beating up, blank-filling, filling fail places, gapping, infilling, overplanting, patching up, recruiting, reinforcement planting, repair planting). (various references) | |
Dutch | zweving (beat, wander), schudden (abet, agitate, incite, shake, shock, stir up), maling, aanvullen (complete). (various references) | |
Finnish | täydennys (completion), jauhatus (grinding, milling), huojunta (beat, fluctuations, hunting, ripple). (various references) | |
French | battement (beat), battage. (various references) | |
German | Klopfen (bang, beat, clap, detonate, hammer, hammering, hit, knock, knocking, palpitate, palpitation, Pat, pink, pound, pulsate, pulsation, rap, strike, tap, tenderize, throb, to detonate, to knock, to palpitate). (various references) | |
Greek | χτύπημα (blow, bump, chatter, chop, clip, knock, knocking, slam, strike, stroke, thrust, whop). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "כא" (striking), קוף (beaten, bruised, bruising), קיפ" (bruising, knocking), קיש" (click, knock, percussion, rattle, snap, tap), רקוע (flattening, sheet, thin layer), "רקע" (flattening, flying, soaring high, zoom), עור (agitation, dusting, empty, shaken out, shaking off, stirred), "טח" (knocking, throwing, thrust), תבוס" (checkmate, collapse, defeat, downfall, drubbing, licking, overthrow, rout, setback, thrashing), "לקא" (flagellation, flogging, striking, stripe, thrashing, whipping), "לימ" (hitting, pulsation, striking), כתות (crushing, pounding), כתיש" (crushing, pounding), כתית" (crushing), חבט" (bang, flap, pound, striking, swat, thrashing, thwack), "טח (knock). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szívverés (beat, heart-beat). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pukulan (chop, knock, punch, smack), pengacakan (messing up, randomization). (various references) | |
Italian | beating, battitura (breaking, driving, hammering, hulling, scutching, stippling, thrashing, threshing), battito (beat, flutter, pulsation, pulse, throb, tick, wingbeat), batosta (blow), bastonate, sconfitta (defeat, discomfiture, elimination, repulse, walloping), risarcimento (award, compensation, damage, indemnity, recompense, redress, refund, reimbursement, reparation), raffinazione (refinement), pulsazione (heartbeat, pitapat, pulsation, throb, throbbing), picchiata (blow, dive, diving, knocking, nosedive, swoop), percosse. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リンク装置 (abuse, bullying, conditioner, linear, linkage, lymph, lynch, ring, ring binder, ring name, ring out, Ringer, ringside, rinse). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リンチ (abuse, bullying, lynch). (various references) | |
Korean | 매질. (various references) | |
Manx | ooriltagh da. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | batedura (beat, blows, flogging, hammering, strapping, thrashing, whipping). (various references) | |
Romanian | batere (knocking), bastonadã (flopping), bãtut (beaten, creamed), bãtaie (battue, beat, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), înfrângere (defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, foil, licking, overthrow, reverse). (various references) | |
Russian | массаж (massage), битье (smash), бить биение;избиение, порка (corporal punishment, flagellation, flogging, hiding, horsing, lashing, leathering, licking, oil of birch, the lash, thrashing, toco, towelling, unstitching, whopping), поражение (checkmate, dazzle, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, overturn, whipping). (various references) | |
Scottish | tunnachadh, tuimhseadh, slacraich (slaughtering). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bijenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | paliza (bashing, basting, beating up, drubbing, flogging, hammering, hiding, leathering, licking, pasting, plastering, punishment, slap, smacking, thrashing, walloping, whack). (various references) | |
Swedish | stryk (gruel, gruelling, jacketing, licking, pasting, punishment, thrashing, walloping), avbasning. (various references) | |
Turkish | bozgun (cropper, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, rout, stampede, upset), yenilgi (bankruptcy, checkmate, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, reverse, thrashing, trimming), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), sopa (bashing, bat, baton, birc-rod, bludgeon, cane, caning, club, cosh, cudgel, drubbing, ferule, fescue, flogging, rod, shillelagh, stick, switch), pataklama (the works, warming), kötek (bashing, basting, fustigation, lacing, whacking, whaling), dayak atma (leathering, tanning, warming), dayak (bashing, basting, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping), dövme (basting, battering, beaten, dressing down, forged, hammered, hammering, hiding, pound, pounding, swaging, tanning, tattoo, wrought). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбивання (rapping), тіпання, коливання (beat, fluctuation, oscillation, teeter, thrill, throb, vacillation, veering, wabble, wave, wobble), масаж (massage), биття (battering, beat, bobbing, castigation, chastisement, drubbing, flogging, pit-a-pat, pounding, pulse, throb), пульсація (beat, pulsation, pulse, throbbing), пороття (lash), поразка (balk, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, knockout, licking, reverse, whipping, whopping), подріблення. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đập (beat, pulsation), sự đánh (lash, milling). (various references) | |
Welsh | maethgen, curfa (flogging). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | percussum, percussumque, percussus, percussusque, planctus, pulsus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 12, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai palin allon apesteilen kakeinon apekteinan kai pollouV allouV touV men deronteV touV de apokteinonteV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et rursum alium misit et illum occiderunt et plures alios quosdam caedentes alios vero occidentes |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ænd eft he heom sumne sende & hyþane of-slogen. & manege oðre. sume hyobeoten. sume hyo of-slogen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And eftsoone he sente another, and thei slowen hym, and othir mo, betynge summe, and sleynge othere. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And agayne he sent another and him they kylled: and many other beetynge some and kyllinge some. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 12, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug unya iyang gipaadto ang lain pa, ug kini ilang gipatay; ug maingon man ang daghan pa, nga ang uban kanila ilang gibunalan ug ang uban ilang gipatay. |
| Chinese | 又 " 發 一 個 僕 人 去 ． 他 們 就 殺 了 他 。 後 又 " 發 好 些 僕 人 去 ． 有 被 他 們 " 的 、 有 被 他 們 殺 的 。 |
| Croatian | Treæega takoðer posla: njega ubiše. Tako i mnoge druge: jedne istukoše, druge pobiše." |
| Danish | Og han sendte en anden; og ham sloge de ihjel; og mange andre; nogle sloge de, og andre dræbte de. |
| Dutch | En wederom zond hij een anderen, en dien doodden zij; en vele anderen, waarvan zij sommigen sloegen, en sommigen doodden. |
| Finnish | Ja hän lähetti vielä toisen, ja sen he tappoivat; ja samoin useita muita: toisia he pieksivät, toisia tappoivat. |
| French | Il en envoya un troisième, qu`ils tuèrent; puis plusieurs autres, qu`ils battirent ou tuèrent. |
| Gaelic | `Sa rithist chuir e fear eile, `s mharbh iad e; agus moran eile: cuid dhiu sgiurs iad, ach cuid eile mharbh iad. |
| German | Abermals sandte er einen andern: den töteten sie. Und viele andere, etliche stäupten sie, etliche töteten sie. |
| Hungarian | És ismét másikat külde; ezt pedig megölék: és sok másokat; némelyeket megvervén, némelyeket pedig megölvén. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pemilik kebun itu mengirim lagi seorang pelayannya yang lain. Tetapi mereka membunuh pelayan itu. Dan begitulah seterusnya mereka memperlakukan banyak pelayan yang lain pula: ada yang dipukuli dan ada juga yang dibunuh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lagi pula ia menyuruh orang lain, maka orang itu pun dibunuh oleh mereka itu, dan banyaklah orang lain lagi disuruhnya, maka orang-orang itu pun separuh dipukul, dan separuh dibunuh oleh mereka itu. |
| Maori | Na ka tonoa ano e ia tetahi atu; a whakamatea iho ia e ratou; me era atu, tona tini, ko etahi i whiua, ko etahi i whakamatea. |
| Norwegian | Og han sendte en annen, og ham slo de ihjel, og så gjorde de med mange andre: somme slo de, og somme drepte de. |
| Portuguese | Então enviou ainda outro, e a este mataram; e a outros muitos, dos quais a uns espancaram e a outros mataram. |
| Rumanian | A mai trimes un altul, pe care l-au omorkt; apoi a trimes mulyi alyii, dintre cari, pe unii i-au bqtut, iar pe alyii i-au omorkt. |
| Shuar | Tuma ain ataksha Chíkichan akupkamai, tura nunasha Máawarmai. Ti Untsurín akupramai. Chikichnasha katsumkarmai, chikichan Máawarmai. |
| Swahili | Mwenye shamba akatuma mtumishi mwingine tena, na huyo wakamuua. Wengine wengi waliotumwa, baadhi yao walipigwa, na wengi wakauawa. |
| Swedish | Sedan sände han åstad ännu en annan, men denne dräpte de. Likaså gjorde de med många andra: somliga misshandlade de, och andra dräpte de. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, nahubui tena hadua batua-na. Rata ria, rapatehi lau-imi. Bate hewa toe-mi kehi-ra hi butu dua batua to napahawa': ria to raweba', ria to rapatehi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beating": beatings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "beating": browbeating, drumbeating, overbeating. (additional references) | |
Words containing "beating": drumbeatings. (additional references) | |
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"Beating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beaking, Bealing, beaning, beastling, beathing, beatting, beeting, beiging, Benteng, bentong, betating, betong, biatin, biteing, breating, neating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beating" (pronounced bē"ting) |
| 4 | -ē" t i ng | cheating, competing, completing, defeating, deleting, depleting, eating, fleeting, greeting, heating, meeting, mistreating, overeating, repeating, retreating, seating, sheeting, Sweeting, treating, unseating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, complementing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: bating, binate, eating, ingate. | |
-2 letters: agent, began, begat, begin, being, binge, entia, giant, tenia, tinea, tinge. | |
-3 letters: abet, agin, ante, anti, bait, bane, bang, bani, bate, bean, beat, bent, beta, bine, bint, bite, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gent, geta, gibe, gien, gnat, nabe, neat, nite, tain, tang, tine, ting. | |
-4 letters: age, ain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: abetting, beatings, berating, betaking, bleating, debating, rebating, tabering, tangible. | |
+2 letters: absenting, bantering, bartering, basseting, battening, battering, beastings, benignant, betraying, breasting, breathing, ignitable, rabbeting, rebaiting, tableting, tangibles. | |
+3 letters: abiogenist, abnegating, abnegation, abreacting, abridgment, absterging, acerbating, banqueting, bartending, bassetting, bayoneting, beatif | |
