Beam

  • 71Beam —    The main branch of a antler from which tines grown on a white tail deer. This is also known as the main beam.    This describes the main branches of the antlers on a buck where the forks will grow …

    Hunting glossary

  • 72beam — Go to (I )beam …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 73beam — [OE] In Old English times the word bēam (like modern German baum) meant ‘tree’ – a signification preserved in tree names such as hornbeam and whitebeam. But already before the year 1000 the extended meanings we are familiar with today – ‘piece of …

    Word origins

  • 74beam —  To beam a tub, is to put water into it, to stop the leaking by swelling the wood. N …

    A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

  • 75Beam center — Beam Beam (b[=e]m), n. [AS. be[ a]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[=a]m tree, OS. b[=o]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[eth]mr, Goth. bagms and Gr. fy^ma a growth, fy^nai to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 76Beam compass — Beam Beam (b[=e]m), n. [AS. be[ a]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[=a]m tree, OS. b[=o]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[eth]mr, Goth. bagms and Gr. fy^ma a growth, fy^nai to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 77Beam engine — Beam Beam (b[=e]m), n. [AS. be[ a]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[=a]m tree, OS. b[=o]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[eth]mr, Goth. bagms and Gr. fy^ma a growth, fy^nai to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 78beam feather — Beam Beam (b[=e]m), n. [AS. be[ a]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[=a]m tree, OS. b[=o]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[eth]mr, Goth. bagms and Gr. fy^ma a growth, fy^nai to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 79Beam (Robotik) — BEAM ist ein Sammelbegriff für eine bestimmte Sorte von Robotern, die primär analoge Schaltkreise nutzen (anstelle eines Mikrocontrollers), um das Verhalten eines natürlichen Organismus zu kopieren. Die Abkürzung BEAM steht für: Biologie,… …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 80Beam-powered propulsion — is a class of spacecraft propulsion mechanisms that use energy beamed to the spacecraft from a remote power plant. Most designs are rocket engines where the energy is provided by the beam, and is used to superheat propellant that then provides… …

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