Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 22
Bear (n.) 熊；似熊的動物；魯莽的人；笨拙的人；【美】【俚】佼佼者 Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
Compare: Metaphorically
Metaphorically (adv.) 比喻地，隱喻地 In a way that uses or relates to metaphor; figuratively.
‘Speaking metaphorically, my dad said I'd just won the lottery.’
‘He seems, literally and metaphorically, lost.’
Bear (n.) (Stock Exchange) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Note: The bears and bulls of the Stock Exchange, whose interest it is, the one to depress, and the other to raise, stocks, are said to be so called in allusion to the bear's habit of pulling down, and the bull's of tossing up.
Bear (n.) (Mach.) A portable punching machine.
Bear (n.) (Naut.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
Australian bear. (Zool.) See Koala.
Bear baiting, The sport of baiting bears with dogs.
Bear caterpillar (Zool.), The hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia.
Bear garden. A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting.
Bear garden. Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. -- M. Arnold.
Bear leader, One who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes charge of a young man on his travels.
Bear (v. t.) (Stock Exchange) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
Bear (n.) Alt. of Bere
Bear (n.) (Bot.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
Bear (n.) Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
Compare: Omnivorous
Omnivorous (a.) 無所不吃的；什麼都讀的；隨手亂拿的 (Of an animal or person) Feeding on a variety of food of both plant and animal origin.
Omnivorous (a.) Indiscriminate in taking in or using whatever is available.
‘An omnivorous reader.’
Compare: Indiscriminate
Indiscriminate (a.) 不加區別的，無差別的；不分皂白的；雜亂無章的；任意的 Done at random or without careful judgement.
‘The indiscriminate use of antibiotics can cause problems.’
Indiscriminate (a.) (Of a person) Not using or exercising discrimination.
‘She was indiscriminate with her affections.’
Bear (n.) An investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price [ant: bull].
Bear (v.) Have; "bear a resemblance"; "bear a signature".
Bear (v.) Cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn: give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have].
Bear (v.) Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up].
Bear (v.) Move while holding up or supporting; "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders".
Bear (v.) Bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" [syn: bear, turn out].
Bear (v.) Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, accept, assume].
Bear (v.) Contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" [syn: hold, bear, carry, contain].
Bear (v.) Bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" [syn: yield, pay, bear].
Bear (v.) Have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar" [syn: wear, bear].
Bear (v.) Behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" [syn: behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry].
Bear (v.) Have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade" [syn: bear, hold].
Bear (v.) Support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright" [syn: hold, carry, bear].
Bear (v.) Be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child" [syn: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect].
Bear () A native of the mountain regions of Western Asia, frequently mentioned in Scripture. David defended his flocks against the attacks of a bear (1 Sam. 17:34-37). Bears came out of the wood and destroyed the children who mocked the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 2:24). Their habits are referred to in Isa. 59:11; Prov. 28:15; Lam. 3:10. The fury of the female bear when robbed of her young is spoken of (2 Sam. 17:8; Prov. 17:12; Hos. 13:8). In Daniel's vision of the four great monarchies, the Medo-Persian empire is represented by a bear (7:5).
Bearable (a.) 能耐的；忍得住的 Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
Bearable (a.) Capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment" [syn: bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportable].
Bearberry (n.) (Bot.) 熊果 Bearberry; 眾多文獻都記載熊果萃取物對明亮肌膚、修復紫外線傷害、淡化曬斑及黑色素有幫助。熊果作為草藥使用已經有很長一段歷史：其葉子被歐洲及美洲原住民作為茶飲並療癒泌尿系統。當然，熊果有更長的一段歷史是熊喜愛的食物。
研究顯示熊果之所以能明亮肌膚，是因為它含有獨特的抗氧化劑以及其他植物性化學物質組合，像是「對苯二酚」與「熊果酸」都是天然有效的美白成分。
我們在特調的冰島野生草本配方中加入一點熊果，因為我們認為這對長期改善及滋潤肌膚是安全且有效的，同時幫助肌膚（妳）保持開心、健康、看起來格外＂亮妍＂！ A trailing plant of the heath family ({Arctostaphylos uva-ursi),
having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which
bears are said to be fond.
Bearberry (n.) Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada [syn: cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus].
Bearberry (n.) Deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States [syn: bearberry, possum haw, winterberry, Ilex decidua].
Bearberry (n.) Chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas.
Compare: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (n.) 熊果又名熊葡萄、熊莓，是杜鵑花科熊果屬的一種植物。熊果; 匍匐性小型灌木，株高約5-30公分。老莖褐色，嫩莖通常為綠色，不過在日照較強的地區嫩莖則呈現紅色。葉為常綠性，可以持續生長在樹上1-3年才會掉落，葉小，單葉，互生，倒卵形，質地硬且厚；葉面光亮，葉暗綠色，葉背的顏色比葉面淡。在春天開花，花期為每年的三月至六月，花小，白色或粉紅色。果實為紅色的漿果。
Is a plant species of the genus Arctostaphylos widely distributed across circumboreal regions of the subarctic Northern Hemisphere. [2] Kinnikinnick (First Nations for "smoking mixture") is a common name in Canada and the United States. [2] [3] [4] It is one of several related species referred to as bearberry. [2] [5]
Its specific name uva-ursi means "grape of the bear" in Latin (ūva ursī), similar to the meaning of the generic epithet Arctostaphylos ("bear grapes").
Bearbind (n.) (Bot.) The bindweed ({Convolvulus arvensis).
Compare: Bindweed
Bindweed (n.) 旋花類的植物 Any of various twining vines, esp. any of certain vines (genus Convolvulus) of the morning-glory family.
Beard (v. t.) 公然反對，與……對抗；抓……的鬍鬚 To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
Beard (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. -- Macaulay.
Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Beard (n.) （下巴上的）鬍鬚，山羊鬍；（動物的）頜毛；（植物的）芒 The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Beard (n.) (Zool.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
Beard (n.) (Zool.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
Beard (n.) (Zool.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
Beard (n.) (Zool.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
Beard (n.) (Zool.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
Beard (n.) (Zool.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
Beard (n.) (Bot.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
Beard (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
Beard (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
Beard (n.) (Print.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Beard grass (Bot.), A coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon.
To one's beard, To one's face; in open defiance.
Beard (n.) The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard, face fungus, whiskers].
Beard (n.) A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses.
Beard (n.) A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality).
Beard (n.) Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals.
Beard (n.) Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: byssus, beard].
Beard (v.) Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights".
Beard () The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of Ezekiel's (5:1-4) description of the "razor" i.e., the agents of an angry providence being used against the guilty nation of the Jews. It was a part of a Jew's daily toilet to anoint his beard with oil and perfume (Ps. 133:2). Beards were trimmed with the most fastidious care (2 Sam. 19:24), and their neglet was an indication of deep sorrow (Isa. 15:2; Jer. 41:5). The custom was to shave or pluck off the hair as a sign of mourning (Isa. 50:6; Jer. 48:37; Ezra 9:3). The beards of David's ambassadors were cut off by hanun (2 Sam. 10:4) as a mark of indignity.
On the other hand, the Egyptians carefully shaved the hair off their faces, and they compelled their slaves to do so also (Gen. 41:14).
Beard (n.) The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
Bearded (imp. & p. p.) of Beard
Bearding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beard
Beard (n.) [ C ] (A1) （下巴上的）鬍鬚 The hair that some men allow to grow on the lower part of their face.
// A flowing white beard.
// He's growing a beard.
// He shaved off his beard but kept his moustache.
Beard (n.) 山羊鬍 The long hair that grows under a goat's mouth.
Beard (v.) [ T ] (Literary) 勇敢面對（某人），公然反抗（某人） To face, meet, or deal with an unpleasant or frightening person in a brave or determined way.
// With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable-looking librarian behind the desk.
Idiom:
Beard the lion (in his/ her den) 太歲頭上動土；老虎嘴裡拔牙 To visit an important person in order to tell or ask them something unpleasant.
Bearded (a.) Having a beard.
Beardie (n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.
Beardless (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
Beardless (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
Beardlessness (n.) The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
Bearer (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Bearer (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
Bearer (n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
Bearer (n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
Bearherd (n.) A man who tends a bear.
Bearhound (n.) A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
Bearing (n.) 舉止，風度；體態 [S] [U]；關係，關聯 [S] [U] [（+on）]；（機器的）軸承 [C]；方位，方向；方向感[P]；忍耐，忍受 [U]；生育，生育期；結果實，結果實期 [U] [C]；壓力，推力 [U]；意思 [U]；方面 [C]；Bear的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
I know him by his bearing. -- Shak.
Bearing (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies. -- Pope.
Bearing (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
[His mother] in travail of his bearing. -- R. of Gloucester.
Bearing (n.) (Arch.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
Bearing (n.) (Arch.)The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Bearing (n.) (Arch.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
Bearing (n.) (Mach.)The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
Bearing (n.) (Mach.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
Bearing (n.) (Her.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
A carriage covered with armorial bearings. -- Thackeray.
Bearing (n.) (Naut.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
Bearing (n.) (Naut.) (pl.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
Bearing (n.) (Naut.) (pl.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Ball bearings. See under Ball.
To bring one to his bearings, To bring one to his senses.
To lose one's bearings, To become bewildered.
To take bearings, To ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity.
Syn: Deportment; gesture; mien; behavior; manner; carriage; demeanor; port; conduct; direction; relation; tendency; influence.
Bearing cloth (n.) A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. -- Shak.
Bearing rein (n.) (ph.) 勒馬的韁繩 A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
Compare: Checkrein
Checkrein (n.) 勒馬韁繩；控制 A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Checkrein (n.) A rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position [syn: bearing rein, checkrein].
Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the checkhook to hold a horse's head up or back -- called also bearing rein ; see harness illustration.
Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Checkrein (n.) Measures calculated to check or govern : control.
// He held a tight administrative checkrein upon expenditures -- Current Biography.
// New import controls and other checkreins seem to have worked … overseas trade into at least a temporarily favorable balance – Newsweek.
Checkrein (v. t.) 控制 Hold in check : control.
// Civilian authority checkreining the military.
Bearing rein (n.) A rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position [syn: bearing rein, checkrein].
Bearish (a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
Bearishness (n.) Behavior like that of a bear.
Bearn (n.) See Bairn.
Bear's-breech (n.) See Acanthus, n., 1.
Bear's-breech (n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)
Bear's-ear (n.) A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
Bear's-foot (n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
Bearskin (n.) The skin of a bear.
Bearskin (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
Bearskin (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
Bear's-paw (n.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
Bearward (n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.
Beast (n.) 獸，野獸；（體大的四足）動物；粗暴（或兇殘，蠢笨，卑劣）的人，畜生；獸性 [the S] Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Beast (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. -- Prov. xii. 10.
Compare: Regardeth
Regardeth (v.) (Archaic) (T hird-person singular simple present indicative form of) Regard.
Beast (n.) Any animal other than a human; -- opposed to man.
'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast. -- W. C. Fields.
Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
Beast (n.) A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.] -- Wright.
Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
Beast royal, the lion. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Syn: Beast, Brute.
Usage: When we use these words in a figurative sense, as applicable to human beings, we think of beasts as mere animals governed by animal appetite; and of brutes as being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of beastly appetites; beastly indulgences, etc.; and of brutal manners; brutal inhumanity; brutal ferocity. So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made himself a beast, and then treated his family like a brute.
Beast (n.) A living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna].
Beast (n.) A cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat]
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Beast (n.) This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Ex. 22:5; Num. 20:4, 8, 11; Ps. 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen. 45:17); of eatable beasts (Prov. 9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries (Isa. 60:6). In the New Testament it is used of a domestic animal as property (Rev. 18:13); as used for food (1 Cor. 15:39), for service (Luke 10:34; Acts 23:24), and for sacrifice (Acts 7:42).
When used in contradistinction to man (Ps. 36:6), it denotes a brute creature generally, and when in contradistinction to creeping things (Lev. 11:2-7; 27:26), a four-footed animal.
The Mosaic law required that beasts of labour should have rest on the Sabbath (Ex. 20:10; 23:12), and in the Sabbatical year all cattle were allowed to roam about freely, and eat whatever grew in the fields (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:7). No animal could be castrated (Lev. 22:24). Animals of different kinds were to be always kept separate (Lev. 19:19; Deut. 22:10). Oxen when used in threshing were not to be prevented from eating what was within their reach (Deut. 25:4; 1 Cor.9:9).
This word is used figuratively of an infuriated multitude (1 Cor. 15:32; Acts 19:29; comp. Ps. 22:12, 16; Eccl. 3:18; Isa. 11:6-8), and of wicked men (2 Pet. 2:12). The four beasts of Daniel 7:3, 17, 23 represent four kingdoms or kings.
Beasthood (n.) State or nature of a beast.
Beastings (n. pl.) See Biestings.
Beastlihead (n.) Beastliness. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Beastlike (a.) Like a beast.
Beastlike (a.) Resembling a beast or some aspect of one.
Beastliness (n.) 獸性 The state or quality of being beastly.
Beastliness (n.) The quality of being deliberately mean [syn: beastliness, meanness].
Compare: Meanness
Meanness (n.) [Mass noun] 卑賤；吝嗇；劣等；惡意的行為 [British] Lack of generosity; miserliness.
Compare: Generosity
Generosity (n.) [Mass noun] 寬宏大量；慷慨 [U]；寬大的行為；慷慨的行為 [P] The quality of being kind and generous.
‘I was overwhelmed by the generosity of friends and neighbours.’
Generosity (n.) [Mass noun] The quality or fact of being plentiful or large.
‘Diners certainly cannot complain about the generosity of portions.’
Compare: Miserliness
Miserliness (n.) [Mass noun] 吝嗇；貪婪 Excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness.
‘The party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions’
Miserliness (n.) [Mass noun] The quality of being small or inadequate; meagreness.
‘The relative miserliness of the prizes involved.’
Meanness (n.) [Mass noun] Unkindness, spitefulness, or unfairness.
‘All the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us.’
Meanness (n.) [Mass noun] North American Aggressive character; viciousness.
‘He is also callous, with a streak of meanness.’
Meanness (n.) [Mass noun] Lack of quality or attractiveness; shabbiness.
‘The meanness of that existence.’
Beastliness (n.) Unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
Beastly (a.) 野獸（般）的；野蠻的；汙濁的；【口】令人不快的，可厭的，可惡的 Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
Beastly divinities and droves of gods. -- Prior.
Beastly (a.) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
The beastly vice of drinking to excess. -- Swift.
Beastly (a.) Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]
Syn: Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.
Beastly (adv.) 【英】【口】非常，極 In a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law".
Beastly (a.) Very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn: beastly, hellish, god-awful].
Beastly (a.) Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal].
Compare: Scoop
Scoop (n.) 勺子；戽斗 [C]；【醫】匙，勺 [C]； 鏟斗，煤斗；勺形鏟鑿 [C] A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
Scoop (n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
Scoop (n.) (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
Scoop (n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. -- J. R. Drake.
Scoop (n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
Scoop (n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
Scoop (n.) A quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.
Scoop (n.) An act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. [Newspaper or laboratory cant].
Scoop (n.) News or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce? [informal].
Scoop net, A kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.
Scoop wheel, A wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
Undulation (n.) [C] The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
Undulation (n.) A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. -- Evelyn.
Undulation (n.) (Mus.) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.
Undulation (n.) (Mus.) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.
Undulation (n.) (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
Undulation (n.) An undulating curve [syn: wave, undulation].
Undulation (n.) Wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves.
Undulation (n.) (Physics) A movement up and down or back and forth [syn: wave, undulation].
Beat (imp.) of Beat
Beat (p. p.) of Beat
Beaten () of Beat
Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beat
Beat (v. t.) 打，擊，敲；衝擊；拍打；撲動，跳動；（以連續擊打）攪拌 [（+up）] To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. -- Ex. xxx. 36.
They did beat the gold into thin plates. -- Ex. xxxix. 3.
Beat (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. -- Prior.
Beat (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. -- Milton.
Beat (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. -- Blackmore.
Beat (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle. -- Prescott.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. -- M. Arnold.
Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
Beat (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? -- Locke.
Beat (v. t.) (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
Beat (v. t.) To baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
Beat (v. t.) To evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.
To beat down, To haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
To beat into, To teach or instill, by repetition.
To beat off, To repel or drive back.
To beat out, To extend by hammering.
To beat out of a thing, To cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." -- South.
To beat the dust. (Man.) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse.
To beat the dust. (Man.) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
To beat the hoof, To walk; to go on foot.
To beat the wing, To flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
To beat time, To measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
To beat up, To attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.
Beat (v. i.) 打，擊，敲 [（+at/ on/ upon）] ；吹打；衝擊 [（+against/ on）]；拍打；撲動，跳動 To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
The men of the city . . . beat at the door. -- Judges. xix. 22.
Beat (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
A thousand hearts beat happily. -- Byron.
Beat (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. -- Dryden.
They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. -- Longfellow.
The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die. -- Jonah iv. 8.
Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. -- Bacon.
Beat (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]
To still my beating mind. -- Shak.
Beat (v. i.) (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.