Beam

  • 41beam — ray, beam are comparable when they denote a shaft of light. This conception of light as a shaft is fixed in our language but is not always in keeping with modern scientific views of the nature of light. Ray suggests emanation from a center or… …

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  • 42Beam Me Up — Infobox Single Name = Beam Me Up Artist = Tay Dizm featuring T Pain and Rick Ross Album = Length = B side = Released = August 19 2008 Format = Digital download Recorded = 2007 2008 Genre = Hip hop Length = 3:40 Label = Nappy Boy Digital/Jive… …

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  • 43Beam —    1) (The King s or Great)    Used for weighing heavy goods, avoirs du pois (Cal. L. Bk. A. p. 191), in contradistinction to the small beam for weighing light goods.    Foreign merchants were, by the customs of the City, bound to weigh their… …

    Dictionary of London

  • 44beam — 1. noun 1) an oak beam Syn: joist, lintel, rafter, purlin; spar, girder, balk, timber, two by four, plank; support, strut; scantling, transom, stringer, collar beam, I beam 2) …

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  • 45beam — i. A processed and directed pulse of energy. ii. An invisible path produced by radio signals. An aircraft can follow the beam when approaching or going away from a navigational fix. A radar detects an aircraft when it is illuminated by its beam.… …

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  • 46beam — 1. noun 1) an oak beam Syn: plank, timber, joist, rafter, lintel, spar, girder, support 2) a beam of light Syn: ray, shaft, stream, streak …

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  • 47beam up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms beam up : present tense I/you/we/they beam up he/she/it beams up present participle beaming up past tense beamed up past participle beamed up in science fiction stories, to bring someone back to their… …

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  • 48beam — See: OFF THE BEAM, ON THE BEAM …

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  • 49beam — See: OFF THE BEAM, ON THE BEAM …

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  • 50Beam —    Occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver s frame or principal beam; in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross piece or rafter of a house; 1 Kings 7:6, an… …

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