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66 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• 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 structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building;…
• beam n. (Nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said…
• beam n. (Nautical) The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
• beam n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• beam n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• beam n. (Literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• beam n. (Textiles) 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 central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are…
• beam n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• beam n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• beam n. (Figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• beam n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• beam n. (Music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
• beam n. (Railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• beam n. (Gymnastics) Ellipsis of balance beam.
• beam v. (Transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
• beam v. (Intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• beam v. (Transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• beam v. (Transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
• beam v. (Transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• beam v. (Transitive, computing) To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
• beam v. (Transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
• beam v. (Transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• beam v. (Transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
• Beam prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • beam n. (Northern ME or Early ME) Alternative form of beem.
• Old english
  • beam n. Beam of wood.
  • beam n. Gallows.
  • beam n. (By extension) the Cross.
• Old english - West frisian
  • beam n. Tree.
• Romanian
  • beam v. First-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of bea.

— English words, defined in German —

• beam S. Der Strahl [a] der Lichtstrahl [b] das Strahlenbündel.
• beam S. Der Balken.
• beam S. Sport: der Schwebebalken: Sportgerät von [2].
• beam V. Strahlen, leuchten.
• beam V. Gesichtsausdruck: strahlen.
• beam V. Ausstrahlen, versenden, senden.
• beam V. Blick, Lächeln etc.: zuwerfen.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• beam n. (Bouwkunde) balk.
• beam n. (Scheepvaart) dekbalk.
• beam n. (Scheepvaart) grootste breedte van een schip.
• beam n. (Biologie) hoofdtak van een hertengewei.
• beam n. Straal, stralenbundel.
• beam w. Onovergankelijk stralen.
• beam w. Overgankelijk uitstralen.

— English words, defined in French —

• beam n. (Architecture) Poutre, poutrelle.
• beam n. Faisceau.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• beam s. Viga.
• beam s. Rayo, haz.
• beam s. Manga (longitud).
• beam v. Sonreir de oreja a oreja.
• beam v. Emitir.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• beam s. Viga.
• beam s. Barra.
• beam s. Raio.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• beam s. Raggio, traversa.
• beam s. (Ingegneria) trave.
• beam s. (Araldica) ramo principale del ramo di cervo.
• beam s. (Araldica) stanga dell’ancora.
• beam s. (Araldica) raggio del sole.

— In German —

• beam V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beamen.
• beam V. 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beamen.
• Beam S. Satellitentechnik: gerichteter Fluss der Radiostrahlung…

— In French —

• beam n.f. (Canada) (Anglicisme) Poutre.

198 English words from 33 English definitions

across aft also Alternative anchor and animal antler Any appearance approximately are axis balance balance␣beam bar beam beams before body broadly build building By␣extension can carriage central chariot cheaply cheerfully collection colter computing concrete connect connects Cross crossbar currying cylinder deer direct direction dirt Early elevated Ellipsis emit emitted end end␣of ends engines especially example extension feathers fiction figuratively First First␣person First-person␣singular foot for fore fore␣and␣aft for␣example form from furnish Gallows give gleam group Gymnastics handles having hawk heavy hide high high␣tech horizontal horizontal␣bar imperfect imperfect␣indicative indicate indicative information infrared In␣steam intransitive iron its large lever light line Literary long loom luminous making matter maximum means mechanical mechanism members metric more motion music musical music␣notation Nautical Northern notation note notes of␣a of␣an one oscillating other parallel part perpendicular person piece pile plow plural pole portion prepared principal proportion put radiate railway ray rays rectangular said scales science science␣fiction secured shank shine singular smile something steam steam␣engines steel stem stems straight stretch structural such such␣as sun supply surname suspended tech Textiles that the them thick thickness timber to␣the Transitive transmit Tree two use used used␣to usually value vessel via warp weavers weaving which width wind wing wireless with wood

24 English words from 33 foreign definitions

Architecture balk Barra Blick Canada das del dell der des een etc haz Manga Person Raggio Rayo Singular sole Sport trave van Verbs Viga

1 foreign word from 33 English definitions

bea

52 foreign words from 33 foreign definitions

Aktiv ancora Anglicisme Araldica Ausstrahlen Balken beamen Biologie Bouwkunde breedte cervo Emitir Faisceau Fluss gerichteter Gesichtsausdruck grootste hertengewei hoofdtak Imperativ Indikativ Ingegneria Lächeln leuchten Lichtstrahl longitud Onovergankelijk oreja Overgankelijk Poutre poutrelle Präsens principale raggio Raio ramo ramo␣di␣cervo Scheepvaart schip Schwebebalken senden Sportgerät stanga Straal Strahl strahlen stralen traversa uitstralen versenden von zuwerfen

100 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

beams beamy Beaman be␣a␣man beamed beamer Beamer beames Beames Beamon beam-on beam␣up beamage beamers Beamers beamful beamier beamily beaming beamish Beamish beamlet beam␣sea beams␣up beambird beamed␣up beam-ends beamform beamfuls beamiest beamings beamless beamlets beamlike beamline beampath beampipe beam␣seas beamsize beamsome beamster beamstop beamtime beam␣tree beamwalk beambirds beambreak beamforms beaminess beamingly +50 words

113 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

H-beams I-beams T-beams embeams airbeams carbeams daybeams embeamed eyebeams outbeams sunbeams sunbeamy tiebeams tie␣beams unbeamed Airy␣beams betabeams beta-beams embeaming fish␣beams forebeams fork␣beams glee-beams hardbeams high-beams high␣beams hornbeams inbeaming minibeams moonbeams nanobeams outbeamed rood␣beams roofbeams shoebeams shoe␣beams spotbeams spot␣beams starbeams tail-beams warp␣beams crossbeams hyperbeams inbeamings laserbeams laser␣beams microbeams outbeaming photobeams pilot␣beams +63 words

116 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

abeam H-beam I-beam T-beam embeam onbeam on-beam airbeam carbeam daybeam eyebeam low-beam offbeam off-beam outbeam Pilbeam sunbeam Sunbeam tiebeam tie␣beam Airy␣beam betabeam beta-beam fish␣beam forebeam fork␣beam glee-beam hardbeam high-beam hornbeam minibeam moonbeam nanobeam rood␣beam roofbeam shoebeam shoe␣beam spotbeam spot␣beam starbeam tail-beam warp␣beam crossbeam hyperbeam interbeam laserbeam laser␣beam microbeam multibeam photobeam +66 words

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Bea BEA eam EAM

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

aeb AEB Mae MAE

8 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ambe ameb- Bame BAME bema Emba mabe Mabe

63 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

abeam abime abyme Ambae amber Amber amble Amble ameba amebo- amoeb- amœb- Bames Baumé Bayme Beahm beams beamy belam bemad beman Beman bemar bemas bemba Bemba blame brame Brame bream Bream B␣team embar embay Embla gambe H-beam Iambe I-beam jambe Lambe mabbe Mabee Mabel Maben mabes mabey Mabey Mabie Mable +13 words

47 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

abe Abe ABE Abé ABM aeb AEB AEM amb amb. AmE AME bae Bae BAe BAE bam Bam BAM Bea BEA Bem BEM BMA B.␣M.␣A. BME B.M.E. EAB eam EAM eba EBM ema EMA emb. mab mAb Mab MAb -mab Mae MAE Mba MBA MBE MEA MEB

34 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

BAAM bead beag beak beal Beal bean Bean bear Bear Beas beat beau Beau beav Beem Behm berm Berm. BESM B'ham blam BLAM Bram Byam heam leam Leam neam ream Ream seam team Team

9 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

bam Bam BAM Bea BEA Bem BEM eam EAM

5 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Beahm belam bream Bream B␣team

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