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# beat

verb (beat, beats, beat, beaten, beating); noun (a beat, beats); adjective (beat — informal, very tired)

«beat» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To beat is to win against someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#m1)
2. To beat is to hit again and again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#m2)
3. To beat food is to mix it fast, like eggs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#m3)
4. A beat is a regular sound or pulse, like the beat of a drum or a heart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#m4)
5. Beat (informal) means very tired. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#m5)

### In the lessons

a comparison of scores or times between winner and loser; in music, beats per bar; in science, heartbeats per minute; phrases «beat by», «beat a record», «heartbeat», «on the beat», «beat it» (go away)

### Examples

- The Lions beat the Tigers by 5 points. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x1)
- She beat her record by 2 seconds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x2)
- He beat 3 eggs for the cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x3)
- How many points did they need to beat 40? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x4)
- My heart beats about 80 times a minute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x5)
- Clap to the beat of the music. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x6)
- The rain beat on the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x7)
- I'm beat after the long hike. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x8)
- Can you beat my high score? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x9)
- The drummer kept the beat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x10)
- Oh, how his heart did beat! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/#x11)

### Note

«beat by» gives a difference: winner = loser + margin. Trap: to beat 40 you need at least 41. Past form «beat», past participle «beaten». «Beat» sounds like «beet» (a red vegetable). Hitting people or animals is wrong.

## In Jewish tradition

To hit or strike, to hammer metal, or to knock olives from a tree.

**Interpretation.** The rule on beating the olive tree is read as a duty to leave the rest for the poor. The beaten fire-pans were hammered into a cover for the altar to remind Israel of Korah's rebellion.

### Examples

- Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite, who dwelt in that hill-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah. (Torah NUM.14.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x1)
- And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x2)
- When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x3)
- Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world. (Writings PRO.23.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x4)
- And I will beat to pieces his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him. (Writings PSA.89.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x5)
- Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.' (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x6)

### Note

«beat by» gives a difference: winner = loser + margin. Trap: to beat 40 you need at least 41. Past form «beat», past participle «beaten». «Beat» sounds like «beet» (a red vegetable). Hitting people or animals is wrong.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «beat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/beat.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «beat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/beat.html) on Mova free.