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BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 582 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere) , a blow or stroke; from the many applications of the verb " to beat " come various meanings of the substantive, in some of which the primary sense has become obscure. It is applied to tile throbbing of the
pulse
  or heart, to the beating of a drum, either for
retreat
 , or charge, or to quarters; in music to the alternating
sound
  produced by the striking together of two notes not exactly of the same pitch (see
SOUND
 ), and also to the
movement
  of the
baton
  by which a conductor of an orchestra or chorus indicates the time, and to the divisions of a bar. As a nautical
term
 , a " beat " is the zigzag course taken by a ship in sailing against the wind. The application of the word to a policeman's or sentry's round comes either from beating a covert for game and hence the
term
  means an exhaustive
search
  of a
district
 , or from the repeated strokes of the foot in constantly walking up and down. In this sense the word is used in America, particularly in
Alabama
  and Mississippi, of a voting
precinct
 .


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