Beat
Beat or beats may refer to:
Common usage
- Strike (attack), repeatedly striking a person or object
- Victory to win, outdo, outfox or otherwise achieve a victory over another (or the odds)
- Patrol an area (usually geographic) that one is responsible to monitor, including:
- Beat (police), the territory and time that a police officer patrols
- Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist
- Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
- Forest beat, in forestry administration, a divisional subunit of a Forest range
- The act of beating; battery
People
- Beat (name), a German male given name
Companies, brands and organisations
- Beat (charity), a British charity that supports people with eating disorders
- Beats Electronics, American producer of audio products, such as the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones
- Beat (soda), a drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico
Film and theatre
- Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
- Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a script
- Unit of action, also called a beat
- Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
- Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
- Beat (1997 film), a 1997 South Korean gangster film
Music and acoustics
- Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
- Beat (music), the basic time unit or pulse in a piece of music representing one moment in time, or a segment of rhythm or cadence.
- Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
- Pulse (music), in music and music theory, beats in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level
- The Beat (British band), a ska band
- Beat (band), a Finnish band
- Beat (album), a 1982 album by King Crimson
- "Beat" (song), a 2005 Japanese song by Kaela Kimura
Video games
- Beat (video game character), a character from Jet Set Radio
- Beats (video game), a 2007 video game for PlayStation Portable
- Beat, a character from Eternal Sonata
- Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series
- Beat, a character from The World Ends with You and Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
Motor vehicles
- Beat, a model of the Japanese Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor
- Chevrolet Beat, a concept car providing the basis for the Daewoo Matiz M300
- Honda Beat, a 1991–1996 roadster
- Honda FC50, a 50cc motor scooter also called "The Beat"
Other
- Beating, in sailing upwind close-hauled with the wind coming from one side and then tacking
- beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time
- Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing
See also
- Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
- The Beat (disambiguation)
- Downbeat (disambiguation)
- On the Beat (disambiguation)
- Beet, a plant
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Beat.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.