| 单词 | to beat seconds |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat seconds c. transitive. to beat seconds, etc. See 33. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [verb (intransitive)] > tick beat1737 to beat seconds1883 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry ii. iv. 152 Whose voyce (if you lay your eare to the Hiue) you shall distinguish..louder and greater, and beating with a more solemne measure. 1737 M. Green Poems (1796) 71 There let the serious death-watch beat. 1801 Cooper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 442 The trial with the watch was again resorted to; and she could hear it beat. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. IV. at Beats And like the human pulse in a fever, the more dissonant are the sounds, the quicker they beat. 1883 E. Beckett Rudim. Treat. Clocks (ed. 7) 295 In a pocket lever watch the balance generally beats in 2–9ths of a second. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 242 If two tones which are within about fifteen cycles per second of each other are played together the combined signal is heard to pulsate or beat at the difference frequency. < as lemmas |
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