Beat
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- It's the beat, the beat, the beat that makes you want to rock. -- Jazzy Rhythms, Michelle Wallace
- Afrobeat - breaks - broken beats - Beat Generation - dance - drums - groove - new beat - rhythm - riddims
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- A pulsation or throb.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
- Template:Law enforcement The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat.
- In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business, etc.).
- A small part of a dramatic play.
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