Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word beam. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in beam.
Definitions and meaning of beam
beam
Etymology
From Middle Englishbeem, from Old Englishbēam(“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic*baum, from Proto-Germanic*baumaz(“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰew-(“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisianbeam(“tree”), Saterland FrisianBoom(“tree”), Dutchboom(“tree”), German Low GermanBoom(“tree”), GermanBaum(“tree”), LuxembourgishBam(“tree”), Albanianbimë(“a plant”). Doublet of boom.
The original English meaning of beam ("tree") is preserved in some compound words such as quickbeam.
The verb is from Middle Englishbemen, from Old Englishbēamian(“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.
Pronunciation
enPR: bēm, IPA(key): /biːm/
Rhymes: -iːm
Noun
beam (pluralbeams)
(structural) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
(structural) One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building.
(nautical) One of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid, and acting as part of the support for keeping the sides of the vessel in shape — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones; cf. abeam, beam-ends.
1805 Alexander Tilloch. Account of a terrible Hurricane in the West Indies 1804. Philosophical Magazine. Vol. XXI. P. 14
Capt. King, from Demarara, was invaded by the gale on the evening of the 6th, in lat. 21° 51', and his vessel was thrown on her beam ends. He was forced to cut away her main-mast. Lost a man, who was washed overboard. . . . Capt. Mood, on a voyage from Alexandria (Virginia), to St. Mary's (Georgia), was, on the night of the 7th, in the Gulf Stream, to the eastward of Charlston: the wind there was east-north-east, and so hard as to throw his vessel on her beam ends. She lay several hours in this situation. Several of his crew were washed overboard.
1808 Richard Hall Gower. On the Theory and Practice of Seamanship.
It often happens that by a sudden squall of wind a vessel is thrown over upon her beam ends, without a prospect of recovering her erect while she remains upon the same tack, therefore attempts are made to veer her; but as the rudder lies along the surface of the water it becomes useless, and as the sails are either blown from the yards, or become unmanageable, recourse is had to cutting away the main-mast and mizen-mast, that the ship may veer under the fore-mast:-a most desperate expedient, particularly if the ship is far distant from port!
(nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
Synonym:breadth
(nautical) The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
As the vessel passes a landmark, the landmark is said to be abeam. Once the vessel has passed the landmark, it falls abaft the beam, then it gradually falls astern.
(nautical) The straight part or shank of an anchor.
(mechanical) The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
(mechanical) In steam engines, 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.
Synonyms:working beam, walking beam
(agricultural) The central bar 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.
(physics) A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
a beam of light
a beam of energy
(anatomical, informal) The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
(anatomical, informal) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
Synonym:beam feather
(literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
(textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
(figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
a beam of hope, or of comfort
(music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
(railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
(gymnastics)Ellipsis of balance beam.
A broad smile.
Hyponyms
(structural element):
H-beam
I-beam
T-beam
(textiles):
fore beam
back beam
Derived terms
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See also
Thesaurus:stick
Verb
beam (third-person singular simple presentbeams, present participlebeaming, simple past and past participlebeamed)
(transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
(intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
(transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
(transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
(transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
(transitive, computing) To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
(transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
(transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
(transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
Derived terms
beam up
Translations
Descendants
German: beamen
Dutch: beamen
Japanese: ビーム
Anagrams
BAME, Bame, Mabe, ambe, bema, mabe
German
Pronunciation
Verb
beam
singular imperative of beamen
Middle English
Noun
beam
(Northern or Early Middle English)Alternative form of beem