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UK
/bˈiːm/
]
[ US /ˈbim/ ]
[ US /ˈbim/ ]
NOUN
- (nautical) breadth amidships
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the broad side of a ship
they sighted land on the port beam - a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts
- a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather
- a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
VERB
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emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
The fire beamed on their faces
The sun shone bright that day -
experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
She was beaming with joy
Her face radiated with happiness -
express with a beaming face or smile
he beamed his approval -
broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
We cannot air this X-rated song -
have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna - smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression
How To Use beam In A Sentence
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- I awoke to the bright rays of sunlight beaming on me.
- But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
- Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
- The unit installs at the transom and emits sonar beams that ‘look’ out to 240 feet on either side of the boat.
- By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
- Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
