(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
(2) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(3) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(4) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(5) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(6) In an effort to decrease the treatment time for this technique, the flattening filter has been removed from an AECL Therac-6 linear accelerator and the characteristics of the resulting beam have been measured.
(7) Comparative clinical studies on temporomandibular joints (TMJ) between the LEGP and fan beam collimators also confirm the superior image quality obtained with the fan beam collimator.
(8) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
(9) Three-five days after endoscopic laser destruction long-distance open-field gamma-beam therapy was administered to 10 patients and polychemotherapy to 9 of these.
(10) Guidelines for external beam treatment have been set forth in the ASTRO Newsletter.
(11) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
(12) Nevertheless some technical variations are required, to maintain the typical homogeneity of photon beams.
(13) The RBEs of fast neutron, thermal neutron beams, and neutron capture therapy relative to 60Co gamma-ray were calculated as 2.78, 4.18, and 6.15 at 0.1 surviving fraction, respectively.
(14) Some patients received postoperative external beam irradiation (2000 cGy whole pelvis and an additional 3000 cGy to the parametria, with a midline stepwedge) when deep myometrial invasion was present.
(15) Between 1981 and 1985, 20 patients with malignancy-associated ureteral obstruction (MAUO) were given external beam irradiation with a palliative intent.
(16) Finally, the question of oncogenic effects raised with 193 nm laser beams does not seem to apply to the 308 nm wavelength.
(17) Hence the laser beam acts as a fixation target and measuring beam.
(18) Electron beam therapy is usually employed for the treatment of tumours located at or near the surface of the body, because the electron beam gives a high dose near the surface, but falls off rapidly with increasing depth beyond the level of the 80% depth dose.
(19) By embedding the biopsy in the acrylic resin LR White, unsupported sections of which are stable in the electron beam, light and electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry become feasible on sections from the same block.
(20) Real 60Co beams contain lower energy components; in addition, Awall is defined differently by different authors.
Bream
Definition:
(n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
(n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
(n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
(v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
Example Sentences:
(1) @LengelDavid October 2, 2013 Did you say Sid Bream?
(2) The change is reversed when the temperature is raised back to 22 degrees C, and it occurs a second time when the temperature is lowered again to 4 degrees C. The myelin in bream optic nerve undergoes a similar thermal transition, but the myelin in brachial plexus does not.
(3) On the other hand, when NSA-Na was anaerobically incubated with sea bream liver cytosol and NADPH, the formation of cyano-pentenone, cyano-pentanone, and cyanopentenol, but not cyano-pentadienone, was observed.
(4) A novel latent proteinase of which activity was induced by heating in the presence of NaCl was purified to homogeneity from threadfin-bream muscle by a combination of DEAE-cellulose, Con A-Sepharose, Arg-Sepharose, and Shim-pack HAC chromatographies.
(5) When the temperature of bream spinal cord is lowered from room temperature to 4 degrees C, much but not all of the AS (short spacing) myelin changes into AL (long spacing) myelin.
(6) Morphological patterns of the retina, cone size and density, rod density, rod-cone ratio, ganglion cell density, convergence of receptor cells, resolving power (RP) and regionalization were examined throughout life history in roach and in adults of asp, bream, common carp, roach and sabre carp.
(7) After all, the Pirates suffered 20 straight losing seasons after Sid Bream's slide ended their World Series hopes in game seven of the 1993 National League Championship.
(8) There are many more phases to come, including further luxury accommodation, a residential village, second golf course, banqueting facilities and other high-end leisure amenities.” James Bream, a research and policy director for Aberdeenshire tourism board, believes the opening of the first course in 2012 has increased tourism and given north-east Scotland a far higher-profile in the golfing world, helping its economy spread beyond a reliance on North Sea oil.
(9) The eggs of both the roach and bream is richer in these proteins than the sperm.
(10) Heterozygous breams turned out to be more stable to the effect of pleurocercoids than homozygous ones.
(11) The cause of the deaths of bony bream and other native fish in the Finke River near Alice Springs in winter 1984 was infection with the protozoan ciliate Chilodonella hexasticha.
(12) We investigated 39 fish species (eel, brown trout, chub, carp bream, roach, perch, pike etc.)
(13) A fish, such as sea bass or bream, or perhaps mackerel, can be seasoned in this way, as can a fillet or two of lamb.
(14) The quantitative yield is given for DNA and RNA preparations from the mentioned objects, the molecular weight of roach and bream DNA, nucleotide composition of roach DNA as well as fractional composition of bream spermatozoids RNA are determined.
(15) Serves 2 stock 750ml sea bream 1.35 kg, scaled and cleaned, but with head and tail intact For the sauce cooking oil 2 tbsp Sichuan chilli bean paste 2 tbsp (or Sichuan pickled chilli paste if you can get it) garlic 1 tbsp, finely chopped ginger 1 tbsp, finely chopped stock 200ml caster sugar 1 tbsp potato flour 2 tsp mixed with 1½ tbsp cold water Chinkiang vinegar 1 tbsp spring onion greens 3 tbsp, finely sliced Heat up the 750ml stock in a wok.
(16) There are my roast tomatoes with crumbs and thyme, Russell Norman's broad bean, mint and ricotta bruschette, Fuchsia Dunlop's fragrant sea bream, and a beet bourguignon from The Green Kitchen.
(17) Physiochemical characterization of labeled membrane immunoglobulin from bream lymphocytes suggested that only one class of immunoglobulin heavy chain was present and that about one-half of this material resembled the monomeric (2H-2L chain) IgM-like proteins present in bream serum.
(18) We think this type and quality of development is very important,” Bream said.
(19) The cells are known as the components of so called "yellow bodies" (melanine macrophage centers) entering particular numerously in the spleen and in the pronephric kidney of infected breams.
(20) 29 & 31 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BN; 01225 448748, finecheese.co.uk Fish for Thought Not only is all their fish ethically sourced, but Cornish fishmongers Fish for Thought has won a slew of awards for its lobster, turbot, bream, scallops and many more.