Beat

Definition

beat /bi:t/ v ( pt beat; pp beaten /'bi:tn/) ၁။ ထပ္တလဲလဲထုသည္၊ ႐ိုက္သည္။ Somebody was beating at the door. ❍ Who's beating the drum? ❍ She was beating the dust out of the carpet (ie removing dust from the carpet by beating it). ❍ They beat the prisoner unconscious (ie hit him until he became unconscious). ❍ HIT ၂။ ~ against/on sth/sb ႐ိုက္ခတ္သည္။ Hailstones beat against the window. ❍ The waves were beating on the shore. ၃။ ~ sth (up) ေမႊသည္။ ေခါက္သည္။ ခေလာက္သည္။ beat the eggs (up) (to a frothy consistency) ❍ beat the flour and milk together. ၄။ (က) (ႏွလံုး) ခုန္သည္။ She's alive — her heart is still beating. (ခ) စည္းခ်က္မွန္မွန္တီးသည္။ We heard the drums beating. (ဂ) (ေတာင္ပံ) ခတ္သည္။ The bird's wings were beating frantically. ❍ It was beating its wings. ၅။ (က) ~ sb (at sth) ႏိုင္သည္။ Our team was easily beaten. ❍ He beats me at chess. (ခ) သာသည္။ ေက်ာ္သည္။ ႏိုင္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ Nothing beats home cooking. ❍ You can't beat Italian clothes. ❍ The government's main aim is to beat inflation. ❍ beat the speed record (ie go faster than anyone before) ❍ If we leave early we should beat (ie avoid) the rush hour traffic. (ဂ) ( infml ) အခက္ႀကံဳသည္။ စဥ္းစား၍မရ။ a problem that beats even the experts ❍ It beats me/What beats me is (ie I don't know) how/why he did it. ၆။ (သတၱဳကို) ခတ္ သည္။ beaten silver ❍ The gold is beaten (out) into thin strips. ❍ to beat metal flat. ၇။ (သားေကာင္ထြက္လာရန္) ေတာေျခာက္သည္။ ၈။ လမ္းထြင္သည္။ a well-beaten track (ie one worn hard by much use) ❍ The hunters beat a path through the undergrowth. adj ေျခကုန္လက္ပန္းက်ေသာ။ I'm (dead) beat. n ၁။ (က) [C] (စည္၊ ဗံု စသည္) တီးခ်က္။ ယင္းတီးသံ။ a single beat on the drum. (ခ) [sing] စည္စသည္ စည္းခ်က္ မွန္မွန္တီးခ်က္။ ယင္းအသံ။ the steady beat of the drums. ၂။ [C] ဂီတ၊ ကဗ်ာ့နရီ။ The song has a good beat. ၃။ [C] တာဝန္က်လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ ပံုမွန္ လွည့္လည္သြားရာနယ္ေျမ။ a policewoman out on the/her beat. ❏ beat about the bush [ IDM ] ေဝ့လည္ေၾကာင္ပတ္ ေျပာသည္။ Stop beating about the bush and tell us who won. ❏ beat sb at their own game [ IDM ] တစ္ဖက္က ႏိုင္မည္ ဟုတြက္ထားေသာပြဲကို အႏိုင္ရလိုက္သည္။ ❏ beat the clock [ IDM ] (သတ္မွတ္ခ်ိန္ထက္) ေစာၿပီးသည္။ ❏ beat sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႐ိုက္ဖြင့္သည္။ ႐ိုက္ခ်ဳိးသည္။ The thieves had beaten the door down. ၂။ ေျမ၌ ျပားျပားဝပ္ေစသည္။ The wheat had been beaten down by the rain. ❏ beat down (on sb/sth) [ PHRV ] (ေန) ခ်စ္ခ်စ္ေတာက္ ပူသည္။ The sun beat down (on the desert sand). ❏ beat sb/sth down (to sth) [ PHRV ] အတင္း ေဈးဆစ္ သည္။ He wanted $8000 for the car but I beat him down (to $6000). ❍ I beat down the price (to $6000). ❏ beat the drum (for sb/sth) [ IDM ] အားတက္သေရာ ေထာက္ခံေျပာေပးသည္။ ❏ beat sb hollow [ IDM ] ( Brit ) အျပတ္အသတ္ႏိုင္သည္။ Our team was beaten hollow. ❏ beating n ၁။ ႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ give sb/get a good (ie severe) beating. ၂။ ( infml ) မ႐ႈမလွ႐ံႈးျခင္း။ Our team got a sound beating. ❏ beat sb into/to sth [ PHRV ] (ဖြတ္ဖြတ္ေၾကေအာင္၊ ေသ ေအာင္) ႐ိုက္သည္။ The prisoners were beaten into submission. ❍ The dog was beaten to death. ❏ beat it [ IDM ] ( sl ) (esp imperative) ခုထြက္သြား။ This is private land, so beat it! ❏ beat sb/sth off [ PHRV ] တိုက္ခိုက္ေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ The attacker/attack was beaten off. ❍ She beat off a challenge to her leadership of the party. ❏ beat sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ စည္းလိုက္သည္။ She beat out the rhythm on a tin can. ၂။ ၿငိႇမ္းသတ္သည္။ We beat the flames out. ၃။ ပိမ့္ရာခ်ဳိင့္ရာ ေပ်ာက္ေအာင္ထုသည္။ They can beat out the dent in the car's wing. ❏ beat sb out of sth [ PHRV ] ( US sl ) ညာယူသည္။ Her brother beat her out of $200. ❏ beat the rap [ IDM ] ( US sl ) အျပစ္ဒဏ္မခံရဘဲ လြတ္သြား သည္။ ❏ beat a (hasty) retreat [ IDM ] ထြက္ေျပးသည္။ ဆုတ္ေျပး သည္။ The poacher beat a hasty retreat when he saw the farmer coming. ❏ beat time (to sth) [ IDM ] စည္းလိုက္သည္။ She beat time (to the music) with her fingers. ❏ beat sb to… [ PHRV ] ေစာေရာက္သည္။ ဦးသည္။ I'll beat you to the top of the hill (ie I'll race you and get there first). ❏ beat sb to it [ PHRV ] ဦးသြားသည္။ လက္ဦးသည္။ Scott wanted to reach the South Pole first, but Amundsen beat him to it. ❍ I was about to take the last cake, but he beat me to it. ❏ beat - up adj ( infml esp US ) ခ်ံဳးခ်ံဳးက်ေနေသာ။ ရြဲေနေသာ။ a beat- up old car. ❏ beat sb up [ PHRV ] မညႇာမတာ႐ိုက္သည္၊ ကန္သည္။ He was badly beaten up by a gang of thugs. ❏ can you beat that/it! [ IDM ] (တအံ့တဩျဖစ္ရာ၌ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ႀကံဳဖူးရဲ႕လား အရပ္ကတို႔။ ❏ if you can't beat them, join them [ IDM ] ( catchphrase ) သူ႕မႏိုင္ရင္ သူ႕ဘက္ဝင္။ ❏ off the beaten track [ IDM ] လူသူအေရာက္အေပါက္ နည္းသည့္ေနရာ။ They live miles off the beaten track. ❏ a rod/stick to beat sb with [ IDM ] ေဆာ္စရာ ႏွံစရာ အခ်က္။ ႏိုင္ကြက္။ ❏ take a lot of/some beating [ IDM ] လြယ္လြယ္ကေလးႏွင့္ မသာႏိုင္၊ မေက်ာႏိုင္။ She will take some beating (ie It will be difficult to do better than her). ❍ His record will take a lot of beating.

Examples

1. England needed to beat Germany to get to the final.
2. In 2000
3. George W Bush narrowly beat Al Gore in the election.
4. She beat the world record by 0.3 of a second.
5. I’ll be happy if I beat my previous score.
6. It is one of the few businesses that has beaten the recession.
7. Women who have beaten breast cancer
8. [beat someone to/back/up etc] : See if you can beat me back to the house!
9. [beat the deadline/clock] : He was always trying to beat the clock and finish early.
10. They were arrested for beating their children.
11. Someone was beating a drum in the distance.
12. I beat my hands on the wall with rage.
13. He suddenly beat the table with his fist.
14. [beat against/on/at] : The rain was beating against the windows with renewed force.
15. Waves beating on the shore
16. The shock had made my heart beat faster.
17. For me
18. surfing the Net beats watching TV any time.
19. You can’t beat a good book.
20. Obviously
21. Apple would be upset by any announcement that some company was going to beat them to market.