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. |
Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. |
Cross (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material |
Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue |
Cross (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped |
Cross (n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross |
Cross (n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place |
Cross (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above. |
Cross (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. |
Cross (n.) Church lands. |
Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line. |
Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding |
Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. |
Cross (n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. |
Cross (a.) Not parallel |
Cross (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected |
Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor |
Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation |
Cross (prep.) Athwart |
Cross (v. t.) To put across or athwart |
Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across |
Cross (v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of |
Cross (v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. |
Cross (v. t.) To run counter to |
Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off |
Cross (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon |
Cross (v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across |
Cross (v. t.) To cause to interbreed |
Cross (v. i.) To lie or be athwart. |
Cross (v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place |
Cross (v. i.) To be inconsistent. |
Cross (v. i.) To interbreed, as races |
Cross-armed (a.) With arms crossed. |
Cross-banded (a.) A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface. |
Cross-bearer (n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions. |
cross-fertilization cross-fertilisation | interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial, the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts |
reappearance return | the act of someone appearing again, his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited |
return homecoming | a coming to or returning home, on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party |
restitution return restoration regaining | getting something back again, upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing |
cross-pollination | stimulating influence among diverse elements, the cross-pollination of the arts |
return | the act of going back to a prior location, they set out on their return to the base camp |
return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble |
return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
double cross doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
hybridization hybridisation crossbreeding crossing cross interbreeding hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
dihybrid cross | hybridization using two traits with two alleles each |
monohybrid cross | hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) |
reciprocal cross reciprocal | hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype |
transvestism transvestitism cross dressing | the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex |
Stations Stations of the Cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary |
return paying back getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
hybrid crossbreed cross | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species, a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey |
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 |
Calvary cross cross of Calvary | a Latin cross set on three steps |
Celtic cross | a Latin cross with a ring surrounding the intersection |
Cross | a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified, used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry |
cross | a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece |
cross bit | a rock drill having cruciform cutting edges, used in mining |
cross hair cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
cross-stitch | embroidery done with pairs of stitches that cross each other |
cross-stitch | two stitches forming a cross or X |
cross street | a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it |
Greek cross | a cross with each of the four arms the same length |
half cross stitch | a single cross stitch at a diagonal |
I-beam | girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
Jerusalem cross | a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar |
Latin cross | a cross with the lowest arm being longer than the others |
Lorraine cross cross of Lorraine | a cross with two crossbars, one above and one below the midpoint of the vertical, the lower longer than the upper |
Maltese cross | a cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center |
papal cross | a cross with three crossbars |
patriarchal cross | a cross with two crossbars |
return key return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
St. Andrew's cross saltire | a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length |
Station of the Cross | a representation of any of the stages in Christ's journey to Calvary |
steelyard lever scale beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
tau cross St. Anthony's cross | cross resembling the Greek letter tau |
thwart cross thwart | a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat, used as a seat in a rowboat |
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 |
crisscross cross mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
cross section | (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles, measured in barns |
beam | (nautical) breadth amidships |