English Dictionary

beat

IPA（発音記号）

/biːt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 イギリス英語 値段交渉（買い手） 多文化ロンドン英語 俗語 卑語

(transitive) To hit; to strike. / (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

日本語の意味

打つ / 殴る / 叩く

He beat the rug to remove the dust.

彼はほこりを取り除くためにじゅうたんを叩いた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To hit; to strike.

As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

意味（2）

(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]

意味（4）

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

A thousand hearts beat happily.

意味（5）

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.

意味（6）

(intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

意味（7）

(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.

意味（8）

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

意味（9）

(transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

意味（10）

(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.

to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

意味（11）

To tread, as a path.

While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,

意味（12）

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

I know not why any one should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be a critick, or make speeches, and write dispatches in it.

意味（13）

To be in agitation or doubt.

to still my beating mind

意味（14）

To make a sound when struck.

The drums beat.

意味（15）

(military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

意味（16）

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.

意味（17）

(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.

He beat me there.

意味（18）

(intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.

Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

意味（19）

(transitive, slang) To rob.

When one of 'em runs up a bill here, then goes off and deals somewhere else, and dodges me every time he sees me, that's the man I'm after with a sharp stick. … Honest people often get into tight places, and we would rather help 'em than hurt 'em then. But some just try to beat you.

beats （ present singular third-person ）

beating （ participle present ）

beat （ past ）

beaten （ participle past ）

beat （ colloquial especially participle past ）

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en-conj （ inflection-template ）

beat （ infinitive ）