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. |
Bojanus organ
() A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney. |
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. |
Organ
(n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished |
Organ
(n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole |
Organ
(n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine |
Organ
(n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another |
Organ
(n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals |
Organ
(v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs |
Rosenmuller's organ
() The parovarium. |
Square
(n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure. |
Square
(n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles. |
Square
(n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so |
Square
(n.) A square piece or fragment. |
Square
(n.) A pane of glass. |
Square
(n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square |
Square
(n.) One hundred superficial feet. |
Square
(n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side |
Square
(n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. |
Square
(n.) Hence, a pattern or rule. |
Square
(n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself |
Square
(n.) Exact proportion |
Square
(n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry |
Square
(n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement |
Square
(n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other |
Square
(n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling |
Square
(n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. |
Square
(a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles |
Square
(a.) Forming a right angle |
Square
(a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines |
Square
(a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent |
Square
(a.) Rendering equal justice |
Square
(a.) Even |
Square
(a.) Leaving nothing |
Square
(a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon |
square dance
square dancing | American country dancing in which couples form squares |
| transplant transplantation organ transplant | an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient), he had a kidney transplant, the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent, a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago |
| square-bashing | drill on a barracks square |
bearded seal
squareflipper square flipper
Erignathus barbatus | medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle, of the Arctic Ocean |
lateral line
lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians, believed to detect pressure changes in the water |
agora
public square | a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece |
| American organ | a freeeed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows |
annulet bandelet
bandelette
bandlet
square and rabbet | molding in the form of a ring, at top of a column |
balance beam
beam | a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts |
barrel organ
grind organ
hand organ
hurdy gurdy
hurdy-gurdy
street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
| 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 |
bevel
bevel square | a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size |
box beam
box girder | a beam built up from boards, has a hollow rectangular cross section |
calliope
steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
| carpenter's square | a steel square used by carpenters, larger than a try square |
cube
square block | a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube |
electric organ
electronic organ
Hammond organ
organ | (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ |
harmonica
mouth organ
harp mouth harp | a small rectangular freeeed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole |
harmonium
organ reed organ | a freeeed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows |
| I-beam | girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
open-air market
open-air marketplace
market square | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold |
organ
pipe organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard |
| organ loft | a gallery occupied by a church organ |
organ pipe
pipe pipework | the flues and stops on a pipe organ |
| organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
| set square | a try square with an adjustable sliding head |
| square | a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles, used to construct or test right angles, the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square |
| square | any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles, a checkerboard has squares |
| square knot | a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords |
| square nut | nut with a square shape |
| square sail | a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast |
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 |
| try square | a square having a metal ruler set at right angles to another straight piece |
| T-square | a square used by draftsmen to draw parallel lines |
| beam | (nautical) breadth amidships |
contractile organ
contractor | a bodily organ that contracts |
| organ | a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
vital organ
vitals | a bodily organ that is essential for life |
| external organ | an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body |
internal organ
viscus | a main organ that is situated inside the body |
sense organ
sensory receptor
receptor | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
tastebud
taste bud
gustatory organ | an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue |
speech organ
vocal organ
organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
| organ of hearing | the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound |
| organ of Corti | the hearing organ of the inner ear, contains receptors that respond to sound waves |
gland
secretory organ
secretor
secreter | any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream |
excretory organ
urinary organ | an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them |