Synonym: bar, glow, shaft, shine, smile, timber. Similar words: team, steam, scream, stream, dream of, dream up, teammate, bean. Meaning: [biːm] 
n. 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 5. (nautical) breadth amidships 6. a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts. v. 1. smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression 2. emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light 3. express with a beaming face or smile 4. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television 5. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink 6. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.
n. 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 5. (nautical) breadth amidships 6. a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts. v. 1. smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression 2. emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light 3. express with a beaming face or smile 4. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television 5. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink 6. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion. 
Random good picture Not show
(61) Len studied it a moment in the beam of his flashlight.
(62) During surgery, doctors sometimes use a laser beam to vaporize tiny blood vessels.
(63) He walloped his head on a beam.
(64) Theodora allowed the beam to travel round the room.
(65) Break the beam and it shoots you.
(66) Beam to another dimension, alien invaders.
(67) A searing beam of high-energy protons blistered the air.
(68) Her movements on the balance beam were perfectly coordinated.
(69) Pulses of energy coursed down the beam.
(70) A beam cracked down into its sockets.
(71) Evan switches the roof spots on full beam.
(72) Alternatively,(http://sentencedict.com/beam.html) electron beam machines are used.
(73) Five pairs of nineteenth-century fulling stocks are preserved here, as well as the eighteen-foot breastshot waterwheel and a rotative beam engine.
(74) Fire a high energy electron beam at a metal target and bremsstrahlung effect produces intense X-rays.
(75) The pin-point brilliance of the targeting beam danced across her forehead.
(76) The beam supports the joists, which are also mounted on the ledger.
(77) Every twenty seconds their elongated selves were flung before him, their shadows cast down by the lighthouse beam.
(78) Beam fire: A wooden beam in a chimney caught fire at a house in Darlington Road[sentencedict.com], Northallerton.
(79) Then she turned the full beam of her attention on me.
(80) Take a look at the piping detail above the buffer beam.
(81) It is also produced by the projector beam in a smoky cinema.
(82) Drivers are flashed a warning if their vehicles break an infra-red beam projected across the road.
(83) Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy, he said.
(84) An 1840 Cornish beam engine remains at the Levant mine, and is preserved by the National Trust.
(85) This incoming beam was focused on to the selenium which changed its resistance according to the strength of the light.
(86) An optical fibre uses total internal reflection to carry a light beam over long distance and around corners.
(87) It was the searchlight beam from the Coast Guard cutter fifty yards off.
(88) Newman lit a cigarette, blew smoke rings, watched them float up, collapse against a heavy wooden beam.
(89) Then, though, there is the risk that the beam itself will interfere with and possibly kill the organism under study.
(90) The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.
More similar words: team, steam, scream, stream, dream of, dream up, teammate, bean, mainstream, beach, beast, beard, bear out, bear on, beat down, be able to, bearable, bear with, be aware of, bearings, bear in mind, be afraid to, be available.