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Main Entry:	beam [beem] Show IPA/bim/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	length of material used as support
Synonyms:	axle, bail, balk, bolster, boom, brace, cantilever, column, crossbar, crosspiece, girder, jamb, joist, lath, lintel, pile, piling, pillar, plank, pole, post, prop, rafter, reach, scaffolding, scantling, shaft, sill, spar, stanchion, stay, stringer, strip, strut, stud, timber, transverse, trestle, two-by-four
Notes:	ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays)

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Main Entry:	beam
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	broadcast on air waves
Synonyms:	emit, give off, give out, glare, glimmer, glow, radiate, send, shed, shine, throw off, transmit

Main Entry:	beam
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	smile broadly
Synonyms:	gleam, glow, grin, laugh, radiate, shine, smirk
Antonyms:	frown, scowl

Example Sentences

The rod was to work when a beam of light was bounced off its end.

When the dome is open, the mirrors direct a beam of.

Though invisible in normal light once it has hardened, this adhesive glows yellow when illuminated by a beam of ultraviolet light.

The rod was to work when a beam of light was bounced off its end.

When the dome is open, the mirrors direct a beam of.

Though invisible in normal light once it has hardened, this adhesive glows yellow when illuminated by a beam of ultraviolet light.

Beam galactic images on the ceiling with a touch of a button.

Researchers defy the laws of physics by making a laser beam bend.

It must have a built-in radar or sonar beam to get it to a safe landing.

Add a tea light or a tap light and beam your undercover message to the world.

When the team ran pulses of blue light through the kidney-jellyfish combo, a visible laser beam shot out.

And the tenons at both ends of the wall beam had sheared through the corner and middle posts.

Please, turn up the radiation beam and get those baby trolls back within specs.

Finally, they shine a laser beam through the mould to the silicon.

It's the light beam and the circle of light on the water that gives this image an almost religious quality.

If the beam is centered directly between the cells, equal amounts of light will shine on each of them.

Higher power lasers and smaller beam diameters might be able to get a cleaner kill.

Its beam spread less in one mile than a flashlight beam spreads when directed across the room.

The balance scale here is a disk on a point not a balance beam on a knife edge.

It would be nice to be able to do the same thing with a beam of atoms.

Penetrate fog, rain, and darkness to illuminate near or far with a high-intensity beam of brilliant light.

In an ideal beam of light, produced by a laser or a distant star, the wave fronts are flat.

One theory was that the amnesia was a result of the brilliant flash experienced when the electron beam struck the retina.

They shot a femtosecond laser across a tightly focused beam of high-speed electrons.

The teacher flashes a small laser beam though smoke wafting up from a stick of incense.

For example, bulging of the mirror surface can defocus a laser beam.

These beautiful speakers can focus their beam of sound so tight that only you can hear it.

In the case of lidar, the waves are in the form of an infra-red laser beam.

It was a dipluran-a trans-lucent, eyeless insect with eerily long appendages that waved slowly in a headlamp's beam.

Occasionally, a single photon from the beam converts into two photons, each with a portion of the original's energy and momentum.

He coated the ends of a ruby with silver mirrors, one coating thinner to let some light escape as a beam.

All that is required is that the reference beam for each arrives at a slightly different angle from all other reference beams.

The receiver would tell the sender not to beam over the key used to decode the message.

When the pulse was midway through the gas, they shut off the coupling beam--stopping the probe beam dead in its tracks.

Nobody else can hear it unless they are in the beam as well.

Greenpeace had a ship, a helicopter to take photographs, and a satellite dish to beam its message to the world's media.

The newly installed antiproton beam begins to collide with the protons.

Finally, a beam of artificial rays from the accelerator is added to the mix.

Use two beam signals pointing at different locations at the receiving planet.

Lasers all work in much the same way: amplifying light into a concentrated beam of a single wavelength or colour.

The images produced rely on an intense x-ray beam capable of producing not only still images, but also real-time video.

The same sensor is used on a boat to shine a beam off the tiller bar, using the reflection to measure the angle of the rudder.

One of the earliest experiments showed that a regular array of atoms could diffract an electron beam.

The microwaves are emitted in a tight beam that can be swept across a crowd or directed at specific individuals.

Laser beams could be directed at an array of trapped ions, and the emitted photons could travel to a bank of beam splitters.

Next they applied a force to the disk using a laser beam and watched the outcome unfold through a digital camera.

The grating splits the laser beam into a row of circles.

To produce white, the electron beam is directed at the phosphors.

Basically it measures how much a light beam gets swayed back and forth by the air it moves through.

Rectennas can be made larger so the beam is less concentrated if absolutely necessary, but it isn't necessary.

The laser beam can travel large distances and is easily controlled.

Beam becomes the fifth chief financial officer to admit.

Because the information is contained in the geometry of the beam, that beam must be precisely aligned to start with.

Clarke predicted communications satellites and feared our enemies would beam morale-rotting broadcasts at us to defeat.

The signal beam can be recreated by illuminating the medium with a beam identical to the original reference beam.

The microscope uses a laser beam to map the surface of the plates.

Exposed beam ceilings were repainted in the open kitchen, living, and dining rooms.

Giuliani completed his last daily session of external beam radiation treatment for prostate cancer.

We need to know that the student can calculate the correct size for the beam necessary to hold the building.

Equipped with a focusing mechanism to regulate the beam from a tight spot to a wide flood.

Short-range infrared lasers could beam advanced broadband multimedia services directly into homes and offices.

But a future probe could quickly zap rocks with a laser and then use a tractor beam to collect some of the resulting vapor.

Maroney appeared to have some jitters on the balance beam as she wobbled twice.

There, in the beam of his headlamp, he saw that it was too late.

Sometimes at its outer edge and sometimes closer, the beam from the flashlight kept reflecting off big cat eyes.

They plopped this rod into a beaker of water and hit it with a laser beam from below.

Directional antennae, unlike the omnidirectional sort, transmit on a narrow beam.

Maneuvering to avoid the beam would also be difficult due to the rapid tracking and response of the laser system.

One beam entered from the left and one from the right.

Backscatter scanners beam low-level x-rays over a person's body, producing an image that resembles a chalk etching.

Instead of being a huge metal beam that carries a gazillion volts with the dual purpose of.

Anybody could run wires to a few hundred houses, beam programmes and collect money.

One long, slender beam bears a deep scar from where someone tried to cut through it.

Now the beam will return to me after fraction of second.

The same sensor is used on a boat to shine a beam off the tiller bar and use the reflection to measure the angle of the rudder.

In the beam of your light, on any given night dive, you'll find a half dozen or more loop-d-looping.

Eventually small, inexpensive devices appear that can trade stocks and beam video around the world.

The name arose from the bobbing motion of the wooden beam.

The first step begins when the ship sends a beam down to the seafloor to map the crater topography.

With a bit of number crunching, a computer can use the position of the beam to calculate the thickness of that object.

These can be customised after surgery by playing a low-intensity beam of light onto the photosensitive material.

Steinberg's group sent photons one by one through a double slit by using a beam splitter and two lengths of fibre-optic cable.

We've corralled some of the best shots here, with a bonus video of graphene being punished by an electron beam.

Greater beam provides more space below to house family and friends, and more space above for sun-worshippers.

They are to regular conductors what a laser beam is to a light bulb.

Or maybe they can revisit the whole dolphin with a freakin' laser beam idea.

Atoms can be cooled using lasers because light particles from the laser beam are absorbed and re-emitted by the.

Bluetooth is instant, and this also means you can beam game soundtracks to speakers and have it stay in sync with the game itself.

The vesicles were dispersed in water and zapped with a beam of neutrons.

When an object is close to the camera, the beam seems to have shifted to the side.

They took a beam of ultracold neutrons and let them fly between a reflecting mirror below and a neutron absorber above.

Main Entry:	beam
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	shine, as a light
Synonyms:	burn, emit, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiate, yield
Antonyms:	be dark

Main Entry:	beam
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make electronic transfer
Synonyms:	emit, radiate, send out, transfer file, transmit, transmit signal

Main Entry:	beacon
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	light used as signal, guide
Synonyms:	alarm, alert, balefire, beam, bonfire, flare, guidepost, heliograph, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, lodestar, pharos, radar, rocket, sign, signal fire, smoke signal, warning signal, watchtower

Main Entry:	blaze
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	flash of light
Synonyms:	beam, brilliance, burst, flare, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiance

Main Entry:	blaze
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	burn brightly
Synonyms:	beam, burst out, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, fulgurate, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, incandesce, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle

Main Entry:	broadcast
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	put forth on electronic media
Synonyms:	air, announce, be on the air, beam, cable, circulate, colorcast, communicate, get out, go on the air, go on the airwaves, put on the air, radio, radiograph, relay, send, show, simulcast, telecast, telegraph, telephone, televise, transmit

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