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Definition of beater in English: beaternoun ˈbiːtəˈbidər 1A person who hits someone or something, typically on a habitual basis. 打击者，敲打者，尤指 he is not a drug addict, an alcoholic, or a woman beater Example sentencesExamples - But to say the love of your life is a beater is really stupid.
- Oh, wait, no-no, he was still a beater and a cheater and sired a daughter who's got issues.
- He must be gutted that he gets 9 months, and other criminals such as muggers, OAP beaters etc. get off with a suspended sentence or community work!
- I've had to deal with violent grannies and aggressive alcoholics and girlfriend beaters.
- To drive home her point, she called him a 'serial woman-beater' before letting off a volley of cuss words.
- 1.1 A person who beats metal in manufacturing.
打磨技工，钣金工 he started out as a metal beater in the sheet metal shop Example sentencesExamples - He was born early in the sixteenth century in Seville, where, according to Cervantes, he worked as a metal-beater.
- He stepped into a silver-beater's shop as the caravans passed.
- After the war he was engaged for about nine years in mining and then entered the rolling-mill at Leechburg, where he was a beater for eight years.
2A person employed to raise game birds for shooting by striking at the ground cover. 拍打地被以惊起野鸟供狩猎的人 he had regularly worked as a beater on grouse shoots on Soyland Moor Example sentencesExamples - On Saturday afternoon Mr Seymour & I did some shooting - rabbits & grouse with the girls as beaters.
- Professional beaters will be called in by Bradford Council to drive birds on to privately-owned adjoining moors where grouse shoots still take place.
- We used to pay beaters, most of whom were miners, 7s 6d a day and give them each a bottle of beer.
- Saboteurs are not unknown, with the result that most keepers take great care when hiring beaters.
- A detachment of young peasants had been designated as beaters.
- As the beaters come within range and the sky darkens, a whistle indicates that the day is over - and when we assemble back at the road, I am astonished.
- His failing powers were shown up when he had to give up shooting after he accidentally peppered one of the beaters.
- Local children skipped school so they could be beaters at a local pheasant shoot, to the headteacher's annoyance.
- There would be beaters for the season and people to cook meals and run the lodge for the shooting parties.
- As employing beaters for driven shoots is expensive, there has been a big rise in ‘walked-up’ shoots, when a small group of gunmen walk across land and drive their own birds up into the air.
- Acting as the beaters, the infantry platoon is to clear the woods for the enemy eyes forward.
3An implement or machine used for beating. 用来敲打的工具（或机器），尤指 beat two eggs in large bowl with a hand beater until fluffy Example sentencesExamples - The Dutch advantage lay in a new technique, the Holland beater, that shredded fresh linen and that dispensed with the fermentation stage of the old technique.
- To prevent the fire spreading to nearby Heckbarley forest, fire fighters used beaters and dampers to cut it off.
- It's also available with a beater or brush-spreading mechanism, so operators can choose the optimum spreading unit for their operation.
- In Manchester the chief officer has been ordering two firefighters in a van to respond to grass fires - without water and equipped only with beaters.
- Steady winds fanned the flames despite firefighters and National Park officials directing six hosereel jets on to the fire and beating out hotspots with rubber beaters.
- The two then went to Samuel's farm where they observed the operation of Anderson's invention, which used a drum and beaters.
- The revolving beaters strip off all the tow and loose matter.
- Fire-fighting tools such as beaters and knapsack sprayers should be to hand and ready to use.
- The Vent-Free Gas Products Alliance reports vent-free beaters are safe when used as directed.
- Once dry, it was again collected on drays, and back it went to the mill to be fed through a machine with wooden beaters, called a scutcher.
- Size reduction is achieved by fixed or swinging beater arms revolving at speed within a chamber.
Synonyms blender, food processor, liquidizer, stirrer, churn, whisk 4informal A person or thing that overcomes or prevents something. 阻止经济衰退的办法。 Example sentencesExamples - Strike beaters: the London mayor caught the Tube to work, condemning the industrial action on Twitter.
- The fund has lagged the index in the recent bull market, but it's a long-term index beater.
- He was the indomitable cancer fighter and cancer beater who finished first in the Tour de France a record seven times.
- Fortunately the rabid fans in Columbus have organized a summer doldrums beater called Cannonfest so remember that event and see you there!
- You can also use a liquid control like a weed beater ultra which is very effective against dandelions and other weeds.
- In my humble opinion this phone is an iPhone beater, I sold my 3G to get it, and so far I am mightily impressed with it.
- The Kenyans tend to be globe beaters at distance running.
- At the time of release the tablet was penned as an iPad beater.
- Every transit network has its fare beaters, the riders who view payment as either optional or prohibitively expensive.
- If any of your corporate allies don't like it, they'll have to come up with a market beater that WORKS this time, or they have no right to comment on what you do.
5North American informal An old or dilapidated vehicle. 〈北美，非正式〉破旧的车子 I bought a beater and drove that for a few years Example sentencesExamples - For a moment, it fishtailed wildly as it accelerated at a speed he would have thought impossible for such an old beater.
- Night Flares yearns to be played in a 20-year-old beater barrelling down a moon-drenched highway.
- These old beaters are working trucks on the Mills' New York farm, so they have never been beautified, though they have been maintained in working mechanical order.
- I got a Honda wagon beater and it gets me from A to B just fine.
- A top 10 hit is merely a college radio staple, and I'm downgraded from a Benz to a beater.
- She slid herself into the passenger seat of her friends beater Chevy IROC.
- Got back in the car, started their car again, which is a bit of an old beater, and it backfired, apparently.
- ‘We don't drive very far, and we need to repair 'em ourselves,’ the beater's owner later tells me.
- Have an old beater leaking battery acid in the driveway?
- Sure, one might put a bush beater out there, or a military-influenced four-wheeler, but a Lexus?
- He also distributes untold numbers of these papers to various parts of town, except that he can't at the moment, because his beater car finally died.
- If I am the one driving this beater into a pole at 63 mph, then I'm the one responsible for judgement day.
- When you have an old, beater car, you might wait a day or two before taking those few soda cans out of the cupholders and the backseat and throwing them away.
- I have a Lincoln LS that Claudia drives most of the time, and then I have an old beater Lumina van that I chase parts in.
- He drove 25 miles to Sioux Falls, where a family friend spotted the old beater and called the police.
- You start the game at level 1 with a beater car that looks pretty clunky and has many of the lower end parts in the game.
RhymesAkita, Anita, arboreta, beta, Bhagavadgita, cheater, cheetah, Demeter, Dieter, dolce vita, eater, eta, Evita, excreta, fetor, granita, greeter, heater, Juanita, litre (US liter), Lolita, maltreater, margarita, meter, metre, Peta, praetor (US pretor), repeater, Rita, saltpetre (US saltpeter), secretor, Senhorita, señorita, Sita, skeeter, teeter, terra incognita, theta, treater, tweeter, ureter, veleta, zeta Definition of beater in US English: beaternounˈbēdərˈbidər 1A person who hits someone or something, typically on a habitual basis. 打击者，敲打者，尤指 he is not a drug addict, an alcoholic, or a woman beater Example sentencesExamples - He must be gutted that he gets 9 months, and other criminals such as muggers, OAP beaters etc. get off with a suspended sentence or community work!
- To drive home her point, she called him a 'serial woman-beater' before letting off a volley of cuss words.
- Oh, wait, no-no, he was still a beater and a cheater and sired a daughter who's got issues.
- But to say the love of your life is a beater is really stupid.
- I've had to deal with violent grannies and aggressive alcoholics and girlfriend beaters.
- 1.1 A person who beats metal in manufacturing.
打磨技工，钣金工 he started out as a metal beater in the sheet metal shop Example sentencesExamples - He stepped into a silver-beater's shop as the caravans passed.
- He was born early in the sixteenth century in Seville, where, according to Cervantes, he worked as a metal-beater.
- After the war he was engaged for about nine years in mining and then entered the rolling-mill at Leechburg, where he was a beater for eight years.
2A person employed to flush out or drive game animals for shooting by striking at the ground cover. 拍打地被以惊起野鸟供狩猎的人 he had regularly worked as a beater on grouse shoots on Soyland Moor Example sentencesExamples - A detachment of young peasants had been designated as beaters.
- As employing beaters for driven shoots is expensive, there has been a big rise in ‘walked-up’ shoots, when a small group of gunmen walk across land and drive their own birds up into the air.
- His failing powers were shown up when he had to give up shooting after he accidentally peppered one of the beaters.
- On Saturday afternoon Mr Seymour & I did some shooting - rabbits & grouse with the girls as beaters.
- There would be beaters for the season and people to cook meals and run the lodge for the shooting parties.
- Local children skipped school so they could be beaters at a local pheasant shoot, to the headteacher's annoyance.
- Acting as the beaters, the infantry platoon is to clear the woods for the enemy eyes forward.
- Saboteurs are not unknown, with the result that most keepers take great care when hiring beaters.
- We used to pay beaters, most of whom were miners, 7s 6d a day and give them each a bottle of beer.
- As the beaters come within range and the sky darkens, a whistle indicates that the day is over - and when we assemble back at the road, I am astonished.
- Professional beaters will be called in by Bradford Council to drive birds on to privately-owned adjoining moors where grouse shoots still take place.
3An implement or machine used for beating. 用来敲打的工具（或机器），尤指 beat two eggs in large bowl with a hand beater until fluffy Example sentencesExamples - Steady winds fanned the flames despite firefighters and National Park officials directing six hosereel jets on to the fire and beating out hotspots with rubber beaters.
- The revolving beaters strip off all the tow and loose matter.
- Fire-fighting tools such as beaters and knapsack sprayers should be to hand and ready to use.
- The Vent-Free Gas Products Alliance reports vent-free beaters are safe when used as directed.
- It's also available with a beater or brush-spreading mechanism, so operators can choose the optimum spreading unit for their operation.
- The Dutch advantage lay in a new technique, the Holland beater, that shredded fresh linen and that dispensed with the fermentation stage of the old technique.
- Size reduction is achieved by fixed or swinging beater arms revolving at speed within a chamber.
- To prevent the fire spreading to nearby Heckbarley forest, fire fighters used beaters and dampers to cut it off.
- The two then went to Samuel's farm where they observed the operation of Anderson's invention, which used a drum and beaters.
- In Manchester the chief officer has been ordering two firefighters in a van to respond to grass fires - without water and equipped only with beaters.
- Once dry, it was again collected on drays, and back it went to the mill to be fed through a machine with wooden beaters, called a scutcher.
Synonyms blender, food processor, liquidizer, stirrer, churn, whisk 4informal A means of defeating or preventing something. 〈非正式〉挫败（或阻止）某事的手段 阻止经济衰退的办法。 Example sentencesExamples - The fund has lagged the index in the recent bull market, but it's a long-term index beater.
- Every transit network has its fare beaters, the riders who view payment as either optional or prohibitively expensive.
- The Kenyans tend to be globe beaters at distance running.
- Fortunately the rabid fans in Columbus have organized a summer doldrums beater called Cannonfest so remember that event and see you there!
- He was the indomitable cancer fighter and cancer beater who finished first in the Tour de France a record seven times.
- In my humble opinion this phone is an iPhone beater, I sold my 3G to get it, and so far I am mightily impressed with it.
- If any of your corporate allies don't like it, they'll have to come up with a market beater that WORKS this time, or they have no right to comment on what you do.
- Strike beaters: the London mayor caught the Tube to work, condemning the industrial action on Twitter.
- At the time of release the tablet was penned as an iPad beater.
- You can also use a liquid control like a weed beater ultra which is very effective against dandelions and other weeds.
5North American informal A dilapidated but serviceable car. I bought a beater and drove that for a few years Example sentencesExamples - Got back in the car, started their car again, which is a bit of an old beater, and it backfired, apparently.
- She slid herself into the passenger seat of her friends beater Chevy IROC.
- Night Flares yearns to be played in a 20-year-old beater barrelling down a moon-drenched highway.
- He drove 25 miles to Sioux Falls, where a family friend spotted the old beater and called the police.
- I got a Honda wagon beater and it gets me from A to B just fine.
- I have a Lincoln LS that Claudia drives most of the time, and then I have an old beater Lumina van that I chase parts in.
- If I am the one driving this beater into a pole at 63 mph, then I'm the one responsible for judgement day.
- Have an old beater leaking battery acid in the driveway?
- He also distributes untold numbers of these papers to various parts of town, except that he can't at the moment, because his beater car finally died.
- These old beaters are working trucks on the Mills' New York farm, so they have never been beautified, though they have been maintained in working mechanical order.
- A top 10 hit is merely a college radio staple, and I'm downgraded from a Benz to a beater.
- For a moment, it fishtailed wildly as it accelerated at a speed he would have thought impossible for such an old beater.
- Sure, one might put a bush beater out there, or a military-influenced four-wheeler, but a Lexus?
- You start the game at level 1 with a beater car that looks pretty clunky and has many of the lower end parts in the game.
- ‘We don't drive very far, and we need to repair 'em ourselves,’ the beater's owner later tells me.
- When you have an old, beater car, you might wait a day or two before taking those few soda cans out of the cupholders and the backseat and throwing them away.
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