beamy
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beam (biːm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc, esp one used as a horizontal structural member |
| 2. | any rigid member or structure that is loaded transversely |
| 3. | the breadth of a ship or boat taken at its widest part, usually amidships |
| 4. | a ray or column of light, as from a beacon |
| 5. | a broad smile |
| 6. | one of the two cylindrical rollers on a loom, one of which holds the warp threads before weaving, the other the finished work |
| 7. | the main stem of a deer's antler from which the smaller branches grow |
| 8. | the central shaft of a plough to which all the main parts are attached |
| 9. | a narrow unidirectional flow of electromagnetic radiation or particles: a beam of light; an electron beam |
| 10. | the horizontal centrally pivoted bar in a balance |
| 11. | informal the width of the hips (esp in the phrase broad in the beam) |
| 12. | a beam in one's eye a fault or grave error greater in oneself than in another person |
| 13. | off beam, off the beam |
| a. not following a radio beam to maintain a course | |
| b. informal wrong, mistaken, or irrelevant | |
| 14. | on the beam |
| a. following a radio beam to maintain a course | |
| b. nautical opposite the beam of a vessel; abeam | |
| c. informal correct, relevant, or appropriate | |
| —vb | |
| 15. | to send out or radiate (rays of light) |
| 16. | (tr) to divert or aim (a radio signal or broadcast, light, etc) in a certain direction: to beam a programme to Tokyo |
| 17. | to pass (data, esp business card details, etc) from one hand-held computer to another by means of infrared beams |
| 18. | (intr) to smile broadly with pleasure or satisfaction |
| [Old English beam; related to Gothic bagms tree, Old High German boum tree] | |
| beamed | |
| —adj | |
| 'beaming | |
| —adj, —n | |
| 'beamless | |
| —adj | |
| 'beamlike | |
| —adj | |
| 'beamy | |
| —adj | |
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Beamy
is always a great word to know.
So is platyhelminthes. Does it mean:
| phylum of worms with bilateral symmetry and soft, usually flattened bodies |
| major grouping of small-to-microscopic pseudocoelomate organisms |
Example sentences
The hull has the same general form as a standard skipjack with a sharp convex bow, beamy midsection, and counter stern.
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