Beam
(n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
Beam
(n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
Beam
(n.) The width of a vessel |
Beam
(n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
Beam
(n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
Beam
(n.) The pole of a carriage. |
Beam
(n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving |
Beam
(n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
Beam
(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. |
Beam
(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 |
Beam
(n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body |
Beam
(n.) Fig.: A ray |
Beam
(n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk |
Beam
(v. t.) To send forth |
Beam
(v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
Beam tree
() A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Bond service
() The condition of a bond servant |
Bord service
() Service due from a bordar |
Drilling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drill |
Drilling
(n.) The act of piercing with a drill. |
Drilling
(n.) A training by repeated exercises. |
Drilling
(n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds. |
Drilling
(n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton. |
Electron
(n.) Amber |
Hammer-beam
(n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Knight service
() A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. |
Service
() Alt. of Service |
Service
() A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. |
Service
(n.) The act of serving |
Service
(n.) The deed of one who serves |
Service
(n.) Office of devotion |
Service
(n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches. |
Service
(n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge |
Service
(n.) Useful office |
Service
(n.) Profession of respect |
Service
(n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it |
Service
(n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law |
Service
(n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc. |
Service
(n.) The act of serving the ball. |
Service
(n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13. |
| service | the performance of duties by a waiter or servant, that restaurant has excellent service |
| curb service | service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles |
| self-service | the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) |
overhaul
inspection and repair
service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
service serving
service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
| service cutback | the act of reducing service |
serve
service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play, his powerful serves won the game |
| service | work done by one person or group that benefits another, budget separately for goods and services |
| consulting service | service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) |
| advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
attestation service
attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
| national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
| service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him |
| military service | land tenure by service in the lord's army |
| knight's service | land tenure by service to the lord as a knight |
welfare work
social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
| service | employment in or work for another, he retired afteryears of service |
| public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service) |
| electron microscopy | microscopy with the use of electron microscopes |
electron spin resonance
ESR
electron paramagnetic resonance | microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet |
sea-duty
service abroad
shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
servicing
service | the act of mating by male animals, the bull was worth good money in servicing fees |
extension
extension service
university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
boring
drilling
oil production | the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum |
| drilling boring | the act of drilling |
service religious service
divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
church service
church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
prayer meeting
prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
chapel service
chapel | a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar, he was late for chapel |
| committal service | service committing a body to the grave, the committal service will be held next Monday |
conscription
muster
draft selective service | compulsory military service |
| service | an act of help or assistance, he did them a service |
disservice
ill service
ill turn | an act intended to help that turns out badly, he did them a disservice |
| community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
| community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
| inter-service support | action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service |
| service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
balance beam
beam | a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts |
| beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction |
| beam | the broad side of a ship, they sighted land on the port beam |
| beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
box beam
box girder | a beam built up from boards, has a hollow rectangular cross section |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
dinner service
dinner set | a table service for serving dinner |
drilling bit
drill bit | a bit used in drilling for oil |
| drilling pipe | a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit, rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud |
drilling platform
offshore rig | drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially |
drill rig
drilling rig
oilrig
oil rig | rig used in drilling for oil or gas |
| electron accelerator | collider that consists of an accelerator that collides electrons and positrons |
| electron gun | the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathodeay tube or electron microscope, consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it |