English > beam: 13 senses > noun 2, artifactMeaning | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction. |
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Narrower | box beam, box girder | A beam built up from boards |
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cantilever | projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only |
girder | A beam made usually of steel |
header | A framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters |
header, lintel | horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window |
joist | beam used to support floors or roofs |
keel | One of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel |
keelson | A longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it |
rafter, balk, baulk | One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof |
rider plate | A horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson |
ridge, ridgepole, rooftree | A beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top |
shore, shoring | A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support |
tie, tie beam | A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating |
timber | A beam made of wood |
trave, traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece | A horizontal beam that extends across something |
Broader | piece | A separate part of a whole |
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structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building |
Substances | wood | The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
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Spanish | viga |
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Catalan | biga |
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English > beam: 13 senses > verb 2, weatherMeaning | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
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Model | Lights beam on the horizon; The horizon is beaming with lights |
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Example | "The fire beamed on their faces" |
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Synonym | shine |
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Caused by | shine | Throw or flash the light of (a lamp) |
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Narrower | beacon | shine like a beacon |
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beat down | shine hard |
blaze | shine brightly and intensively |
burn, glow | shine intensely, as if with heat |
flare, flame | shine with a sudden light |
flicker, flick | shine unsteadily |
glare | shine intensely |
outshine | shine brighter than |
shimmer | shine with a weak or fitful light |
twinkle, winkle, scintillate | emit or reflect light in a flickering manner |
Spanish | brillar, lucir, relucir, relumbrar, resplandecer |
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Catalan | brillar, lluir, relluir, resplendir |
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Nouns | beam | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
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English > beam: 13 senses > verb 4, communicationMeaning | broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
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Synonyms | air, send, broadcast, transmit |
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Category | broadcast medium, broadcasting | A medium that disseminates via telecommunications |
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Cause to | air | Be broadcast |
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Narrower | interrogate | transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication |
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rerun, rebroadcast | broadcast again, as of a film |
satellite | broadcast or disseminate via satellite |
sportscast | broadcast a sports event |
telecast, televise | broadcast via television |
Broader | publicize, publicise, air, bare | make public |
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Spanish | divulgar, emitir, radiar, retransmitir, transmitir |
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Catalan | divulgar, emetre, radiar, transmetre |
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Nouns | beam | a signal transmitted along a narrow path |
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