| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Beam.[Websters]
2. To have shafted, barred, radioed, staffed or stalked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be rayed or striped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be sheafed or faggoted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have poled, sparred, boomed, staked or battened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be membered or limbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have posted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be flanged, sided or ribbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have lined or railed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be ledgered or ridged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb beam.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (beam) | 1. Smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression.[Wordnet]. 2. Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light; "The fire beamed on their faces".[Wordnet]. 3. Express with a beaming face or smile; "he beamed his approval".[Wordnet]. 4. Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.[Wordnet]. 5. Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.[Wordnet]. 6. Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy".[Wordnet]. 7. Especially of the complexion: show a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna".[Wordnet]. 8. To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.[Websters]. 9. To emit beams of light.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: beaming, beamed, beams, beamer, beamers, beamingly and beamedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.[Websters]
2. Being timbered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being barrelled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being raftered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being troubled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being membered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being legged, armed or limbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being ribbed or corded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being polished or burnished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being glittering or sparkling.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BEAMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1503. (references) |
Specialty Definition: beam
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Beam vt. [from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!"] 1. To transfer softcopy of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as `beam me a copy' or `beam that over to his site'. 2. Palm Pilot users very commonly use this term for the act of exchanging bits via the infrared links on their machines (this term seems to have originated with the ill-fated Newton Message Pad). Compare blast, snarf, BLT. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Aerospace | 1. A ray or collection of focused rays of radiated energy. See beam width, radiation pattern. 2. A beam (sense 1) of radio waves used as a navigation aid. 3. =electron beam.4. A body, one of whose dimensions is large compared with the others, whose function is to carry lateral loads (perpendicular to the long dimension) and bending movements. (references) | ||
| Bible | Beam 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 architectural ornament as a projecting step or moulding; Ezek. 41:25, a thick plank. In the New Testament the word occurs only in Matt. 7:3, 4, 5, and Luke 6:41, 42, where it means (Gr.dokos) a large piece of wood used for building purposes, as contrasted with "mote" (Gr.karphos), a small piece or mere splinter. "Mote" and "beam" became proverbial for little and great faults. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Building | One of the principal horizontal wood or steel members of a building. (references) | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | 1: A length of timber of large cross section (e. g. 8x8 in), generally spanning horizontally between supports (e. g. walls, columns), so as to carry a heavy transverse load. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The solid or trussed main structural side members of a ladder supporting the rungs or rung blocks. Also called: spar. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Business | 1: A flow of electromagnetic or light radiation in one direction within a confined path. (references) | 2: 1) The main lobe of an antenna radiation pattern. 2) A column of light. Note: A beam may be parallel, divergent, or convergent. (references) | |
| Electrical Engineering | A directional antenna. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Energy | The width of a ship. (references) | ||
| Health | 1: Cocaine. (references) | 2: Brain Electrical Activity Mapping. (references) | |
| Industry | Part of a loom. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Beam Thrown on my beam-ends. Driven to my last shift. A ship is said to be on her beam-ends when she is laid by a heavy gale completely on her beams or sides. Not unfrequently the only means of righting her in such a case is to cut away her masts. 2: On the starboard beam. A distant point out at sea on the right-hand side, and at right angles to the keel. 3: Beam (of a stag). That part of the head from which the horns spring. (Anglo-Saxon béam, a tree; the horns are called branches.) 4: On the port beam. A similar point on the left-hand side. 5: On the weather beam. On that side of a ship which faces the wind. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | In a plough, that part of the frame to which the body and coulter are attached, directly or via a leg (standard or shank) and frog, and to which power is applied from a tractor, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Military | A focused pulse of energy. (references) | ||
| Mining | The walking beam of a pumping unit. (references) | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Spanish (tranca). (references) | ||
| Physics | 1: The radiation within a lobe of a directional system or the region of space illuminated by this radiation ; a concentrated unidirectional flow of electromagnetic waves, as from a radar aerial, a microwave relay aerial, or an A-N radio range aerial array. The beam here is a major lobe of the aerial radiation pattern and is restricted to a small solid angle in space. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Stream of particles or electromagnetic radiation travelling in a single direction. (references) | |
| Post & Telecom | Beam of radio waves used as a navigation aid. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Slang | Verb. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: Transport character from one spot to another. Context: (In movie) Chekov needed to go on board naval vessel. Social Source: Trekkies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: The widest part of a ship. (references) | 2: A wing spar, sometimes called a wing beam, is a principal spanwise members of the wing structure. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: The greatest width of a vessel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: beam
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Balance beam | A gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ball and beam | The ball and beam system is a classical example of controls. The system is of particular interest because it is open loop unstable. (references) | ||
| Beam (music) | A beam in musical notation is constructed as one or more lines used to connect multiple consecutive eighth notes (quavers), sixteenth notes (semiquavers), or smaller note values. Beams usually connect notes of the same duration, but may connect any combination of notes usually written with flags. (references) | ||
| Beam (nautical) | The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Generally speaking, the wider a ship (or boat)'s beam, the more initial stability she will have, at the expense of reserve stability in the event of a capsize, where more energy is required to right the vessel from its inverted position. Typical length:beam ratios for small sailboats are from 2:1(dinghies to trailerable sailboats around 20') to 5:1(racing sailboats over 30'). Large ships have widely varying beam ratios, some as large as 20:1. (references) | ||
| Beam (structure) | A beam is a structural element that carries load primarily in bending (flexure). Beams generally carry vertical gravitational forces but can also be used to carry horizontal loads (i.e. loads due to a gust of wind or an earthquake). The loads carried by a beam are transferred to columns, walls or girders, which in turn transfer the force to adjacent structural members. (references) | ||
| Beam balance | A balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Beam bridge | A beam bridge is a direct descendant of the log bridge now made from shallow steel "I" beams, box beams (hollow rectangular tubes), reinforced concrete, or post-tensioned concrete (concrete with tubes for cable tendons). It is frequently seen in pedestrian bridges and for highway overpasses and flyovers. As is its ancestor, this bridge is in structural terms the most simple of the many bridge types. (references) | ||
| Beam center | (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the working beam of an engine vibrates. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Beam compass | An instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points; -- used for drawing or describing large circles. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Beam crossing | A beam crossing in a particle collider occurs when two packets of particles, going in opposite directions, reach the same point in space. Most of the particles in each packet cross each other, but a few may collide, producing other particles that may be observed in a particle detector. In a linear collider there is only one location where beam crossings occur, while in a modern accelerator ring there are a few locations (LHC, for example, has eight); it is at these points that detectors are placed. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: beam
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Abaft the beam | Food & Agriculture | Behind a horizontal line drawn through the middle of a ship at right angles to the keel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Angle beam | Mining | A two-limbed beam used for turning angles in shafts, etc. (references) | |
| Antenna beam | Aerospace | The focused pattern of electromagnetic radiation that is either received or transmitted by an antenna. (references) | |
| Arched beam | Building & Civil Engineering | In a tied arch (arched beam, bow-string) the horizontal thrust is taken up by a tension member joining the two ends. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Balance beam | Transportation | See-saw arm pivoted to piston engine (PE) cylinder head transmitting push-rod actuation to valve (s). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Beam action | Mining | In crushing, seizure of rock slab between approaching jaws so as to present crushing stress above unsupported parts of the rock, thus inducing shear failure rather than failure under compression. (references) | |
| Beam angle | Aerospace | = beam width. (references) | |
| Beam angle | Business | In reference to active sensors, beam angle is the amount of beam divergence from the source, expressed in degrees. Also called Beam Divergence. (references) | |
| Beam antenna | Electrical Engineering | A directional antenna. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Beam area | Electrical Engineering | The area on the surface of the Earth within which the antenna gain is at least equal to a specific value, usually-3dB, relative to its maximum gain. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: beam
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| BEAM | English | Building Equipment Accessories and Materials | Building & Civil Engineering | |
| BEAR | English | Beam Experiment Aboard a Rocket | Military & Defense, Engineering & Technology | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
