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. |
Chock-full (a.) Quite full |
Choke-full (a.) Full to the brim |
Full (Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain |
Full (Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided |
Full (Compar.) Not wanting in any essential quality |
Full (Compar.) Sated |
Full (Compar.) Having the mind filled with ideas |
Full (Compar.) Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. |
Full (Compar.) Filled with emotions. |
Full (Compar.) Impregnated |
Full (n.) Complete measure |
Full (adv.) Quite |
Full (v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated |
Full (n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth |
Full (v. i.) To become fulled or thickened |
Full-blooded (a.) Having a full supply of blood. |
Full-blooded (a.) Of pure blood |
Full-bloomed (a.) Like a perfect blossom. |
Full-blown (a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom |
Full-blown (a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail. |
Full-bottomed (a.) Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain. |
Full-bottomed (a.) Of great capacity below the water line. |
Full-butt (adv.) With direct and violentop position |
Full-drive (adv.) With full speed. |
Full-formed (a.) Full in form or shape |
Full-grown (a.) Having reached the limits of growth |
Full-hearted (a.) Full of courage or confidence. |
Full-hot (a.) Very fiery. |
Full-manned (a.) Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship. |
Full-orbed (a.) Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated |
Full-sailed (a.) Having all its sails set, |
Full-winged (a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. |
Full-winged (a.) Beady for flight |
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. |
gainer full gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board |
full nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling) |
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 |
dress suit full dress tailcoat tail coat tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
full-dress uniform | the naval or military uniform that is specified by regulations to be worn on ceremonial occasions |
full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) |
full skirt | a long skirt gathered at the waist |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
I-beam | girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
steelyard lever scale beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
tie tie beam | a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating, he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam |
full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed |
beam | (nautical) breadth amidships |
full page | something that covers an entire page, the ad took up a full page |
full faith and credit | a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt, usually issued by the United States Treasury |
radio beam beam | a signal transmitted along a narrow path, guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather |
period point full stop stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
full house | a poker hand with of a kind and a pair |
complement full complement | number needed to make up a whole force, a full complement of workers |
commercial bank full service bank | a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public |
beam-ends | (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel, on her beam-ends means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical |
black body blackbody full radiator | a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it, a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium |
admiral full admiral | the supreme commander of a fleet, ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral |
cousin first cousin cousin-german full cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle |
full professor | a professor of the highest rank |
general full general | a general officer of the highest rank |
beam beam of light light beam ray ray of light shaft shaft of light irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
beam ray electron beam | a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation |
high beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination |
laser beam | a beam of light generated by a laser |
low beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance |
particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules) |
ion beam ionic beam | a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed |
Japanese maple full moon maple Acer japonicum | leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn, Japan |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
full employment | the economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage rate for their type of labor is employed |
full moon full-of-the-moon full phase of the moon full | the time when the Moon is fully illuminated, the moon is at the full |
term full term | the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent, a healthy baby born at full term |
beam | smile radiantly, express joy through one's facial expression |
wax full | increase in phase, the moon is waxing |
full | make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering |
fill fill up make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense, fill a container, fill the child with pride |
air send broadcast beam transmit | broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television, We cannot air this X-rated song |
beam | express with a beaming face or smile, he beamed his approval |
be full | be sated, have enough to eat, I'm full--don't give me any more beans, please |
full | beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening, full the cloth |