Definition: 1. A signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides pilots in darkness or bad weather. 2. Long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction. 3. A column of light (as from a beacon. 4. A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.
Use 'beam' in a sentence:
1. Father and son looked up to the ceiling, and there on a beam sat the Talking Cricket.
2. The electron microscope uses a beam of electrons to produce images at high magnifications.
3. Even with the lights on full beam I couldn't see very far.
4. He strides around the room beaming like a crazy man.
5. A sharp white spotlight beamed down on a small stage.
6. TEMs work by firing a beam of electrons through the material and measuring how it absorbs and deflects the particles to build up an image of the sample.
7. A major invention was the adjustable strut that could precisely set the depth of the plow by altering the distance of the blade and the beam.
8. As I was running toward his crib, I saw a beam coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him.
9. When Brigida went out, she found the old man busy with putting a new beam along the wall.
10. Eventually, they had to reinforce the walls with exterior beams.
11. The car's headlights were on full beam.
12. This technique makes use of a small flexible mirror placed in the beam of a telescope.
13. Inside the control room, physicists and engineers cautiously shot the beam down part of the tunnel, stopping it before it went all the way around.
14. Len studied it a moment in the beam of his flashlight.
15. Two years afterwards, when Tobias was helping to build a house, a beam fell on him and killed him.
16. She was positively beaming with pleasure.
17. She froze when the beam of the flashlight struck her.
18. In a beam type compensator a stress pattern produced by pure bending is frozen into the material.
19. He beamed at the journalists.
20. So we've got a spectrum of a beam of sunlight and it looks like the colors bleed into each other.
21. Everything she says is a little off beam.
22. The beams are riddled with woodworm.
23. A burst of sunshine sent a beam of amber light through the window.
24. You all know how when you take a crystal prism and pass a beam of sunlight through it, you get a spectrum, which looks like a continuous band of rainbow colors.
25. We have a beam of electrons.
26. Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor.
27. She had committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam.
28. Two wooden beams had come loose from the ceiling.
29. The live satellite broadcast was beamed into homes across America.
30. Be careful not to bump your head on the beam when you stand up.
31. He bumped his head on the low beams of the house.
32. He pointed the torch beam at the floor.
33. Len studied it a moment in the beam of his torch.
34. The thousand liveried angels—begin to cast their beam on the virgin's outward shape—that's her body, the temple that houses her virginal mind.
35. The laser, with its beam of strong light, can drill a hole in a diamond, and yet can be so well controlled that it can be used in delicate eye operations.
36. To see such effects, physicists first have to suck out every possible quantum and leave a beam in its least-energetic "ground state".
37. The car mistakenly thought that the laser beam was in its way and slowed down or changed the direction.
38. This gives you a little bit of an idea of just how many individual photons there are in a laser beam of light.
39. During tests over several days, the pointer or tracker tracked an IR source and directed a laser beam at that source.
40. Since I had promised to focus on the economy like a laser beam, I began with that.
41. The cottage had exposed oak beams.
42. Live pictures of the ceremony were beamed around the world.
43. Your calculation is way off beam.
44. He directed the tiny beam of light at the roof.
45. The barman beamed a warm smile at her.
46. Be careful you don't knock your head on this low beam.
47. The morning sun beamed down on us.
48. As a method of spanning space, the arch can support greater weight than a horizontal beam.
49. Light beamed through a hole in the curtain.
50. Researchers realised that a tunable laser beam might be useful in surgery.
51. Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots.
52. The machine directs a powerful beam at the affected part of the body.
