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beam

noun as in ray of light

verb as in broadcast on air waves

verb as in smile broadly

Strong match

verb as in shine, as a light

Strongest matches

Strong matches

verb as in make electronic transfer

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Example Sentences

The researchers formed positronium by colliding a beam of positrons with a target, where they met up with electrons.

Droplets spewed from the person’s speech show up neon green in the laser beam, moving like tiny meteor showers.

A laser beam hits the debris in orbit and bounces back to Earth, and ground crews can measure how long that takes to figure out where they are and where they are going, alerting you to possible collisions with other objects.

Meanwhile, the beams going the opposite way have their wavelength compressed by their shorter path.

But, like the cosmic rays, the beams of light have a marginal effect.

Back then, no one ever imagined needing to beam live video to ground troops from a fighter jet.

Conservative columnist George Will calls him a “cherubic 40-year-old…a human beam of sunshine.”

Her door stands ajar, halving the room with a beam of light.

Outside the lodge, running along its perimeter, was a small ditch lined by posts topped by a chest-high wooden beam.

The pulses are from a beam of light produced by the intense magnetic field, which sweeps across Earth as the neutron star rotates.

The latter went immediately to look for his wife, and found her hidden in an attic, hanging to a beam.

Cast the beam from thine eye before noticing the mote in that of thy neighbour.

It was placed immediately over the shaft and pump-rods, requiring no engine-beam.

A connecting rod worked a balance-beam, which worked the air-pump, feed-pump, and plug-rod for moving the valves.

A large balance-beam was attached to the pump-rods, near the bottom cross-head.

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On this page you'll find 188 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to beam, such as: girder, joist, piling, pillar, plank, and pole.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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