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Beam

noun
1.
A signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather.  Synonym: radio beam.
2.
Long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction.
3.
A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.  Synonyms: electron beam, ray.
4.
A column of light (as from a beacon).  Synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light.
5.
(nautical) breadth amidships.
6.
The broad side of a ship.
7.
A gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts.  Synonym: balance beam.
verb
(past & past part. beamed; pres. part. beaming)
1.
Smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression.
2.
Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.  Synonym: shine.  "The fire beamed on their faces"
3.
Express with a beaming face or smile.
4.
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.  Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit.
5.
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.  Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine.
6.
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.  Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine.  "Her face radiated with happiness"



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"Beam" Quotes from Famous Books



... Robert stopped to beam at his twin. "Just now," Robert returned to Muldoon, "I won't go into full discussion of our plans. Briefly, however, we are buyers, buyers, we hope, of a particular area. Because of what we have in mind to do we would ...
— Lease to Doomsday • Lee Archer
... no response; then, as in the case of the former visitors, the slide was drawn back and a beam of light came through the grating, to be immediately obscured by the shadowy suggestion of a ...
— The Mystics - A Novel • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... the rope over a beam," cried a tall man. He was one of those who had pursued and caught Jenkins on the bay. Now he seized the rope and called, "Come ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... looking little woman in the rear of them. If you were the minister's wife that day or the banker's daughters you would have got a shock. But she bought the christening robe, and when I used to ask why, she would beam and look conscious, and say she wanted to be extravagant once. And she told me, still smiling, that the more a woman was given to stitching and making things for herself, the greater was her passionate ...
— Margaret Ogilvy • James M. Barrie
... because nobody—distinctly not one person—in our family understood me; that is, me in my relation to themselves; nothing else, of course, mattered so much. But that was before I was married. I think it was because Tom understood me from the very first eye-beam, that I loved him enough to marry him and learn to understand HIM. I always knew in my heart that he had the advantage of me in that beautiful art: I suppose one might call it the soul-art. At all events, it has been of the least possible consequence to me since I had Tom, whether any one ...
— The Whole Family - A Novel by Twelve Authors • William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jo


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