Beat

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Contents 1 Physical beating 2 Video Games 3 Other forms of defeating 4 Music 5 Literature 6 Science 7 Areas of territory 8 Hunting 9 Miscellaneous 10 Etymology

Beat may refer to:

[edit] Physical beating

• To hit repeatedly. This is the original meaning. The subject of the verb may be a human or something inanimate, as in:-

"This is the fifth time this year so far that our rent collector has been beaten up and robbed."

"Storm waves beat against continuous jagged rocks and there was no hope of reaching a safe harbor."

• For physical beatings and similar as a crime, see battery (crime).
• Or see beating up.

[edit] Video Games

• Beat (video game character), a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series

[edit] Other forms of defeating

Via the idea of winning/losing a fist or stick fight, came:-

• To defeat in a battle or fight.
• To defeat in a non-violent competitive sport or game.
  • And from that came:-
  • For one thing to be faster than another or to reach something first.
    • For example, in scuba diving "beating the lung" meant trying to breathe faster than the breathing set could supply air.

[edit] Music

• Beat (music), a pulse of sound that marks the metre, rhythm or riddim of a piece of music
• Beats (music), a produced hip hop composition for MCs to rap over
• Beatmatching, the aligning of the tempos of the songs by DJs
• Beat music, was a popular name in the 50's & 60's for what later became known as pop and rock thus bands would be referred to as beat groups or beat combos
• Beat (band) , a finnish band.
• The Beat (band), a UK ska band of the early 1980s known in the US as The English Beat
• The Beat (US), also known as The Paul Collins Beat, an American power pop group from the late '70s
• Beat (King Crimson album), an album by progressive rock group King Crimson
• Beat (TV-2 album), a 1983 album by the Danish band TV-2

[edit] Literature

• Meter (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of verse
• Beat generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature

[edit] Science

• Beat (acoustics), the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves

[edit] Areas of territory

A "beaten path" is a path made by the repeated treadings of feet. Thus:

• Beat, the territory and time that a police officer patrols
• Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
• Forest beat, a divisional subunit used for administering forests in India, see Forest range

[edit] Hunting

• A "beat", in Scotland, is related to the above meaning of "beaten path" and refers to a route taken by deer stalkers (as deep hunters are called in that region).
• "Beating for game" in hunting means to systematically attack vegetation to drive out of cover whatever animals or birds that the hunters are hunting.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Beat (name), a common male given name in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
• .beat, the unit of the Swatch Internet Time
• Sailing upwind or beating, sailing a sailboat against the wind direction.
• Beat is a robot bird in the Mega Man series of games
• Beat is a brand of cola produced in Mexico by Coca-Cola [1]
• Honda Beat, an automobile produced by Honda Motor Co.
• Beat may be used as slang to refer to someone or something that is otherwise considered boring or uneventful
• In film and screenwriting, a beat refers to a pause in an actor's dialogue

[edit] Etymology

• "Beat" is derived from Anglo-Saxon bēatan, likely with some influence from the verb French battre, Late Latin battuere = "to beat", of Germanic origin.
• The Swiss man's name "Beat" came from Latin beatus = "blessed".