When you hear someone say the word “BEAT”, referring to music, what does that mean to you?

I usually think of it as a base to the music, what you start of with and what helps progress the song or piece. Usually used in the background but over all one of the first things composed to begin the song/piece.

Because most artists loved the way that their men or women that they were to paint/sculpture just the way that they had when they sat and posed and they thought that it looked more i guess