(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.
Deck
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover; to overspread.
(v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
(v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
(v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
(v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
(v.) The roof of a passenger car.
(v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
(v.) A heap or store.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(2) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
(3) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) In Streatham, south London, for example, one user is offering her garden for £20 a night – and there are even deck chairs provided.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) Altogether 23% of deck officers serving throughout the study and 43% of engine-room ratings had one or more absences.
(8) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) Christina was killed in a random attack on the top deck of a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school.
(11) If ergonomic adaptation of the flight deck is impossible, anthropometric limits for pilot selection have to be employed.
(12) Thus, with the qualifications that college students were tested instead of pilots and that they performed monocular laboratory tasks imstead of binocular flight-deck task, it is concluded that 24-h rhythms in accommodation responses need not be considered in setting visual standards for flight-deck task.
(13) Use of the various areas of the pens was determined during a 24-h observation and by a videotape recording of the double-decked pens during the daylight hours.
(14) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
(15) "With those stakes, the response must be all hands on deck.
(16) Decked in red shirts, the handful of supporters – mostly relatives – have tried to keep up the pressure with daily protests.
(17) Or it takes her much longer to shuffle the deck of cards than you thought."
(18) They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck.
(19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
(20) Its giant playing area for handball and volleyball is now decked out with campbeds.