Beam

Definition:

  • (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
  • (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
  • (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
  • (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
  • (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.
  • (n.) The pole of a carriage.
  • (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
  • (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.
  • (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
  • (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.
  • (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
  • (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
  • (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.
  • (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.
  • (v. i.) To emit beams of light.

Compare beam with other words:

beam vs. belam

beam vs. bema

beam vs. sneer

beam vs. berm

beak vs. beam

beam vs. bream

beam vs. plank

beam vs. team

beam vs. blam

beal vs. beam

beam vs. bean

beam vs. ream

beam vs. leam

beam vs. heam

bead vs. beam

beam vs. beau

beam vs. seam

beam vs. bear

beam vs. beat

bam vs. beam

beam vs. log

beam vs. vertical

beam vs. sparkle

beam vs. boil

beam vs. block

arches vs. beam

beam vs. beamily

beam vs. beamless

beam vs. beambird

beam vs. embeam

beam vs. trabeation

beam vs. hurter

beam vs. beamlet

beam vs. crosshead

beam vs. headstock

beam vs. beamingly

beam vs. madrier

arrectary vs. beam

arch vs. beam

beam vs. slab

beam vs. smirk

beam vs. joist

beam vs. exude

bar vs. beam

beam vs. cathead

beam vs. cat

beam vs. grin

beam vs. trabecula

beam vs. trimmer

beam vs. sile

beam vs. rooftree

beam vs. groundsill

beam vs. effulge

beam vs. quartering

beam vs. wiggler

beam vs. beamed

beam vs. collimator

beam vs. carling

beam vs. ridgepole

beam vs. outrigger

beam vs. projector

beam vs. nogging

beam vs. keelson

beam vs. blanking

beam vs. shive

beam vs. photophone

beam vs. scattering

beam vs. raddle

beam vs. crosspiece

beam vs. squint

beam vs. bracket

beam vs. pillar

beam vs. boom

beam vs. tudor

beam vs. torsion

beam vs. rapidity

beam vs. truss

beam vs. cantilever

architrave vs. beam

beam vs. retrace

beam vs. transom

beam vs. collimate

beam vs. framework

beam vs. shaft

beam vs. rafter

beam vs. bitts

beam vs. rayon

beam vs. convergence

backstay vs. beam

beam vs. thwart

beam vs. bearing

beam vs. dip

beam vs. girder

beam vs. leer

beam vs. lear

beam vs. ledge

beam vs. dolly

beam vs. post

beam vs. information

beam vs. matter

beam vs. transmit

beam vs. cheerfully

beam vs. broadly

beam vs. smile

beam vs. radiate

beam vs. emit

beam vs. sunbeam

beam vs. moonbeam

beam vs. crossbeam

beam vs. beamy

beam vs. breadth

beam vs. metric

beam vs. note

beam vs. stem

beam vs. hawk

beam vs. feather

beam vs. gleam

beam vs. light

beam vs. collection

beam vs. ray

beam vs. lever

beam vs. handle