(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.
Truss
Definition:
(n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
(n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
(n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
(n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
(n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
(n.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
(n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.
(n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
(n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
(n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
(n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(2) Truss will tell the Policy Exchange thinktank: "We have seen a decrease in the number of childminders over recent years.
(3) Truss will seek to allay parents' fears of their children being neglected by over-pressed staff, pointing out that the relaxation she proposes still leaves more restrictive ratios than Denmark, France and Germany – three countries often seen as providing high quality care for pre-school children.
(4) Photograph: Mike Bowers 5.48am BST National leader Warren Truss would like to know if the Prime Minister will apologise for banning live exports when she's in Jakarta.
(5) Liz Truss’s £9-per-hour prison officers won’t produce safe, humane prisons | John Podmore Read more When our prisons are at crisis point, amid continuing controversy about incidents such as the recent killing at Pentonville , consider our direction of travel.
(6) They all were – Tatler probably thought it was doing the Conservative party a favour in 2008, when it trussed the rising stars up in Yves Saint Laurent and photographed them looking happy.
(7) But Truss’s move showed that the government did not understand the issue.
(8) But the disarray within the Conservative party over immigration was highlighted again on Sunday when the environment secretary, Liz Truss, admitted that Britain needed EU migrants to fill unskilled jobs in the agricultural sector.
(9) But Truss told reporters in Darwin on Tuesday: “The decision was made by the leadership team which includes the prime minister and I and my deputy [Nationals] leader Barnaby Joyce on the last [parliamentary] sitting Thursday [25 June].” Truss, who is the leader of the Nationals, defined the ban as applying “until serious action is taken by the ABC to ensure the program behaves in a responsible way”.
(10) The junior Coalition party has scheduled a meeting at 8pm in Canberra to select Truss’s successor, putting Barnaby Joyce in the box seat to become leader and deputy prime minister.
(11) Truss will seek to allay parents' fears of their children being neglected by overpressed staff, pointing out that the relaxation she proposes still leaves more restrictive ratios than Denmark, France and Germany – three countries often cited as providing high-quality care for pre-school children.
(12) It had been thought that Miller, who resigned on Wednesday after telling David Cameron her continued presence in the cabinet would be a distraction to the government's work, would be replaced by a woman, such as Elizabeth Truss, the education minister, or Esther McVey, the work and pensions minister.
(13) Elizabeth Truss, environment secretary, said: “Our clean air zones are targeted on the largest vehicles, whilst not affecting car owners and minimising the impact on business.
(14) The deputy prime minister and leader of the Nationals, Warren Truss, said: “Nothing that comes out of Paris will affect or have any impact on the diesel fuel rebate.” George Christensen, a Liberal National party MP based in regional Queensland, said signing the proposed communique would be “madness”.
(15) Since the industrial revolution of the 19th century, towns and cities have been the powerhouses of the UK’s economy, but Truss predicted that the rural economy could be “as productive as towns within 10 years”.
(16) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(17) The new prime minister had “a different program and was not able to accommodate it”, Truss said.
(18) Liz Truss now has the misfortune to inherit the operational disaster that is the direct result of these continued budget reductions and wild swings in government policy.
(19) It’s time the Tory-led government stopped ignoring the overwhelming evidence and got together with scientists, wildlife groups and farmers to develop an alternative strategy to get the problem of bovine TB under control.” Truss’s pledge was well received by farmers at the meeting in Birmingham, where Raymond said 28,000 cattle had to be slaughtered in England last year because of the disease.
(20) Warren Truss has asserted the National party’s demand for a greater share of cabinet positions as the deputy prime minister pushed back at criticism of his secret talks with Liberal defector Ian Macfarlane .