Beat

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Beat may refer to:

• Battery (crime), contact on another person in a manner likely to cause bodily harm
• Assault; "beating up" is a type of assault
• Beat (music), the basic time unit of a piece of music

Literature, theatre, film and music

• Beat (filmmaking), a 'bit' is also known (particularly in the US) as a beat, referring to the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
• Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs, directed by Gary Walkow with Courtney Love and Kiefer Sutherland
• Beat (1998 film), 1998 Japanese film
• Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay, usually taking the form of action-reaction
• Meter (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of verse
• Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
• Beat music, a pop music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.
• Beat (King Crimson album), a 1982 album by experimental band King Crimson
• The Beat (band), ska band, known as The English Beat in the US
• Beat (band), Finnish band
• "Beat" (song), 2005 single from Kaela Kimura

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

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
• Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist, e.g., "Her beat is politics."
• 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

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

Video games

• Beats (video game), a video game for PlayStation Portable
• Beat (video game character), a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
• Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series of games
• Beat, a character from the Eternal Sonata RPG video game
• Beat, a character from the The World Ends with You RPG Nintendo DS game

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 (soda), a brand of cola produced in Mexico by Coca-Cola
• Chevrolet Beat, a subcompact automobile produced by General Motors
• Honda Beat, an automobile produced by Honda Motor Co.
• beat, a British medical charity formerly known as Eating Disorders Association

People

See also

• On the Beat
• Beet

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