What's the difference between beady and beamy?

Beady


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
  • (a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
  • (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
  • (2) Beady Eye tracks such as The Roller are, it has to be said, shown up by the former bands' glories, but closing track Bring the Light matches their peaks for sheer verve at least.
  • (3) Asked by a fan about the possibilities of such a reunion, Gallagher simply said: “What reunion?” However, he did admit to having spent time recently with Beady Eye, the band featuring his former Oasis bandmates, including his brother Liam.
  • (4) Click to view Beady Eye have issued an update on the condition of the band's guitarist Gem Archer, stating that after suffering severe head trauma on 1 August, he is "expected to make a full recovery over the next few weeks".
  • (5) It far outsold the debut by most of his former bandmates’ post-Oasis project, Beady Eye.
  • (6) In the same spirit, Tory strategists are focusing a beady eye on Labour voters who are made uneasy by the rainbow politics of the metropolitan left, of the Stop the War Coalition , of the social networks Corbyn harnessed so brilliantly in the leadership contest.
  • (7) Some private colleges that have attracted the beady attention of Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee get more public money in proportion to their turnovers than the London School of Economics, one of our world-class universities.
  • (8) The world is better for government being kept under the beady-eyed scrutiny of the media and for salient and interesting facts about public espionage being brought into the public domain."
  • (9) He added that people who thought Beady Eye should be playing stadiums just because of his Oasis success were living in the past.
  • (10) Although Trump has flip-flopped on abortion and has seemingly softened his perspective on Obamacare , Mike Pence , his beady-eyed running mate, has been vehemently opposed to reproductive rights throughout his political career.
  • (11) Transduodenal pancreatograms were performed in three patients; one showed a normal pancreatic duct, one showed duct obstruction and in the third patient a beady type of narrowing was found.
  • (12) As I’m talking to you, his beady eyes are burrowing into my face.
  • (13) "And if you didn't agree with her, those little, beady eyes would pop right open.
  • (14) She seems to think that the job of a performer is to be dissected by beady feminist critics rather than to, well, perform – and how is strutting your stuff to 10,000 paying punters a night "avoiding scrutiny"?
  • (15) No great liberties were taken with my story – although I no longer see that as a criterion – and my only job was to provide the odd grace note to the screenplay while befriending Richard Burton and keeping a beady eye on his alcohol consumption.
  • (16) The wall, which assumed a beady appearance as digestion proceded, ultimately sloughed off to reveal the furrowed surface of the plasma membrane.
  • (17) Asked why Beady Eye were playing the Ritz while Williams was playing to tens of thousands, Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 Live they were a "proper live band" but "the bullshit is winning".
  • (18) "At our first rehearsal, I was certain of it," he says, beady brown eyes glittering.
  • (19) Salinger certainly kept a beady eye on the commentators.
  • (20) It's also based on the second-best screenplay by the great thriller writer Eric Ambler (the best was his equally beady-eyed adaptation of The Cruel Sea, five years earlier).

Beamy


Definition:

  • (a.) Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.
  • (a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
  • (a.) Having horns, or antlers.

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