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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)

BEAT (a word See also:

• COMMON

common in various forms to the See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. battere)  , a See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow or stroke; from the many applications of the verb " to See also:

• 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)

beat " come various meanings of the substantive, in some of which the See also:

• PRIMARY

primary sense has become obscure . It is applied to See also:

• TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile throbbing of the See also:

• PULSE

pulse or See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart, to the beating of a See also:

• DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

drum, either for See also:

• RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat, or See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge, or to quarters; in See also:

• MUSIC

music to the alternating See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound produced by the striking together of two notes not exactly of the same See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch (see SOUND), and also to the See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement of the See also:

• BATON (Fr. baton, baston, from Late Lat. basto, a stick or staff)

baton by which a conductor of an See also:

• ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra or See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus indicates the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and to the divisions of a See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar . As a nautical See also:

• TERM

term, a " beat " is the zigzag course taken by a See also:

• SHIP

ship in sailing against the See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind . The application of the word to a policeman's or sentry's See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round comes either from beating a covert for See also:

• GAME

game and hence the term means an exhaustive See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of a See also:

• DISTRICT

district, or from the repeated strokes of the See also:

• FOOT

foot in constantly walking up and down . In this sense the word is used in See also:

• AMERICA

America, particularly in See also:

• ALABAMA

Alabama and See also:

• MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi, of a voting See also:

• PRECINCT (from Lat. praecingere, to encircle, enclose, surround, prae and cingere, to gird)

precinct .