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单词 beam
释义
beam
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Word forms: beams , beaming , beamed
1. verb
If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something. [written]
Frances beamed at her friend with undisguised admiration. [V + at/with]
'Welcome back,' she beamed. [VERB with quote]
...the beaming face of a 41-year-old man on the brink of achieving his dreams. [VERB-ing]
Synonyms: smile, grin, be all smiles  
2. countable noun [usually noun NOUN] B2
A beam is a line of energy, radiation, or particles sent in a particular direction.
...high-energy laser beams.
...a beam of neutrons. [+ of]
3. verb
If something beams radio signals or television pictures or they are beamed somewhere, they are sent there by means of electronic equipment.
The interview was beamed live across the state. [be VERB-ed preposition/adverb]
The live satellite broadcast was beamed into homes across America. [VERB preposition/adverb]
...a ship which is due to begin beaming radio broadcasts to South East Asia. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
Synonyms: transmit, show, air, broadcast  
4. countable noun [noun NOUN] B2
A beam of light is a line of light that shines from an object such as a lamp.
5. verb
If something such as the sun or a lamp beams down, it sends light to a place and shines on it.
A sharp white spot-light beamed down on a small stage. [VERB adverb/preposition]
All you see of the outside world is the sunlight beaming through the cracks in the roof. [VERB adverb/preposition]
Synonyms: radiate, flash, shine, glow  
6. countable noun
A beam is a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete, especially one used to support the roof of a building.
The ceilings are supported by oak beams.
Synonyms: rafter, support, timber, spar  
7. singular noun [usually the NOUN]
In gymnastics, the beam is a piece of equipment that consists of a narrow wooden bar on which gymnasts balance and perform movements.
8.  See also off-beam
Idioms:
be way off beam [British]
to be completely wrong or mistaken
The writer was hilariously way off beam in his criticism of soccer.
Collocations:
beam a signal
The reference and signal beam would then be used to excite the electrons from the shallow traps back to the deep traps.
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For example, in the case of a hologram, illuminating the grating with just the reference beam causes the reconstruction of the original signal beam.
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The flower-like adornment atop her hat acts as a signal beam, but it apparently only works when in her robotic form.
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High gain antenna may be of many designs, but all allow transmitting a narrow signal beam over greater distance than a non-directional antenna, often nulling out nearby interference sources.
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You may be failing to pick up the love signals beamed your way from someone you see as just an acquaintance.
The Sun
beam back
It had beamed back data for 12 years on how the solar system was formed.
The Sun (2016)
And as one the jury beamed back their gratitude, as pleased as a patted dog.
James Fergusson KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds (2004)
Now all he could do was watch the grainy images beamed back to us.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Around the perimeter of the field, dozens of cameras beamed back the scene to audiences around the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
beam of light
David grabbed the otoscope off the floor, raised Bronner's eyelids, and shone the beam of light into his pupils.
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz DO NO HARM (2002)
In a dark gallery, a whirring projector throws a beam of light onto a waiting screen.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Crouching down out of the wind he directed the torch at the sandface, running the beam of light along the strata.
Erskine, Barbara MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE (2003)
beam of sunlight
The familiar, cavernous blue of deep water stretches below, occasionally probed by a wavering beam of sunlight that has pierced the armour of the slick above.
Times, Sunday Times
She was our companion, our support, our joy, and our beam of sunlight.
Times, Sunday Times
A similar phenomenon happens if glass objects like mirrors or ornaments are left too close to windows and focus a beam of sunlight on to flammable material.
Times, Sunday Times
In a current of up to 2cm 1, the swarm maintains its position, usually in a position where a beam of sunlight penetrates the canopy.
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He observed that audible sound could be created by illuminating an intermittent beam of sunlight onto a rubber sheet.
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beam travels
The system measures the distance that each beam travels so that the car's computer can create a constantly updated three-dimensional map of the car's surroundings.
Times, Sunday Times
Between hutches, the beam travels in a transport tube.
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When curved mirrors are used in a nearly confocal configuration, the beam travels on a circular zigzag path.
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As the beam travels through the atmosphere, tiny fractions of the light are scattered by aerosols.
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The fixed path beam travels a known and constant distance, whereas the variable path beam has its path length changed via rotating mirrors or other path changing mechanisms.
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beaming smile
The girth is wide, but so is that beaming smile.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He delighted in being photographed delivering a beaming smile and a high karate kick.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
If his ruddy complexion and beaming smile was anything to go by, he loved it.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
bright beam
Turn a bright beam on that genius and it becomesinvisible.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead of shelling out 50 on new glass, simply rub toothpaste on your lights to restore the surface and get a bright beam again.
The Sun
As the electrons pass through specially designed magnets at each vertex, their sudden change of direction causes them to emit an exceptionally bright beam of electro-magnetic radiation.
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Oil enables differentiation among degrees of reflective light, from shadow to bright beams, and minute depictions of light effects through the use of transparent glazes.
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According to legends, bright beams of light filled the labour room during his birth.
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ceiling beam
Three-stepped bracket complexes are composed of three of the 3-on-1 looking brackets stacked on top of each other with each 3-on-1 bracket supporting a ceiling beam.
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Many ceiling beams, now lovingly exposed, may once have been concealed by rich plasterwork.
Times, Sunday Times
The property has three bedrooms and two receptions, including a kitchen-diner with original stonework, ceiling beams and a woodburner in the fireplace.
Times,Sunday Times
Dating from the 17th century, with 1960s additions, it has original fireplaces and exposed wall and ceiling beams.
Times, Sunday Times
It has two double bedrooms and a sitting/dining room featuring exposed ceiling beams and an open fireplace with a slate hearth.
Times, Sunday Times
concrete beam
A concrete beam had crashed to within a fraction of her head.
Times, Sunday Times
I go for the tough option first - the concrete beam.
Times, Sunday Times
The station features an exposed concrete beam ceiling and its walls are decorated with blue-gray ceramic tiles, which replaced the original mosaic covering.
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The river crossing was apparently replaced by a concrete beam bridge crossing, at a different crossing point, ca. 1994.
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The existing technique of construction of the time was using concrete with a plane straight steel in the center of a concrete beam.
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direct a beam
For informal schemes, use something adjustable so you can direct the beam where you want it.
Times, Sunday Times
Software has been designed to allow the different cameras to triangulate and pinpoint the location of the person directing the beam.
Times, Sunday Times
Officers using power torches direct the beams at the crafts, which are navigated via a live camera feed.
The Sun
In practice, several more mirrors may be used to direct the beams in the required directions.
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emit a beam
These include thousands of different crystals, liquids, and gases which, when electrically charged, will emit a beam of light.
Times, Sunday Times
The heat ray emits a beam from the car's aerial, directly ahead of the vehicle.
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A stick emits a beam of energy which leaves behind a sharp scent like that of a nearby lightning strike.
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The cannon emits a beam of polaron particles, the fictional in-universe antimatter counterpart of the muon (not to be confused with the actual polaron or the actual antimuon).
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energy beam
Each capital ship emanates a powerful force field energy beam that surrounds and protects the base.
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The crystal in his mask fires an energy beam.
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This jewel was capable of emitting an energy beam.
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Emits an energy beam, which hurts at high rate.
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Projects included gas metal arc welding, energy beam processes, solid phase joining and robotics.
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exposed beam
There was a punching bag hanging from an exposed beam.
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The exposed beam soffits were protected against fire by plaster.
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The left and right aisles begin with ribbed vaults and then transition into an exposed beam ceiling.
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The high vaulted ceilings are painted in rich hues of red, blue, gold and emerald with exposed beam work.
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The rooms on the west feature corner fireplaces; the one in front has an exposed beam ceiling.
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face beams
She hunches in fear, but her face beams love at him.
Times, Sunday Times
He leans heavily on a stick, but his face beams with delight.
Times, Sunday Times
Now his face beams down on the street he used to live in.
Times, Sunday Times
fire a beam
They needed to fire a beam through silk samples.
Times, Sunday Times
Could also fire a beam from its forehead.
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The device fires a beam into a suspicious mole then analyses skin pigments within it.
The Sun
The team fired a beam of fluorine ions at a proton-rich target to produce, which then decays into oxygen and two protons.
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The experiment successfully demonstrated that a particle beam would operate and propagate as predicted outside the atmosphere and that there are no unexpected side-effects when firing the beam in space.
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flashlight beam
He would sweep the flashlight beam over the erected two-by-four studs and see the light travel between them, faintly spread against the night sky.
Globe and Mail
Previous radar systems used parabolic reflectors or similar systems to produce a narrow beam of radio energy rather like a flashlight beam.
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Flashlight beams act as a reticle.
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floor beam
By 1820 throwing was done on rectangular frames and the width of the building was dependent solely on the strength of the floor beam.
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After the floor beams were installed, at alternate floor beam panel points a set of diagonal bracing struts were installed.
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The basement fire, burning through a supporting floor beam., caused a section of the floor to drop into the basement as it rushed up into the main level.
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Cast-iron was used for the roof trusses and floor beams.
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The plane parts destroyed three floor beams, and severely compromised the building's internal structure.
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focus a beam
To minimise the spill area, focus the beam from flood to spot.
Times, Sunday Times
It's like those flashlights that you tighten the lid to focus the beam.
Christianity Today
A similar phenomenon happens if glass objects like mirrors or ornaments are left too close to windows and focus a beam of sunlight on to flammable material.
Times, Sunday Times
This reduces the ability to finely focus the beam.
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The plant uses concentrating parabolic mirrors to focus a beam of light on a tower making steam for electricity generating turbines.
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horizontal beam
Two drones began construction by hovering in a circular motion around a horizontal beam on one of the scaffolding towers.
Times, Sunday Times
Without either the vertical or the horizontal beam, its structure fails.
Christianity Today
For example, a horizontal beam tends to sag.
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The press would consist of a large horizontal beam held up by two upright fixtures in the front and on upright fixture in the front.
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Above the entrance, a horizontal beam, embellished with a mosaic depicting drama, comedy and music, intersects the strong vertical mullions.
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infrared beam
He and colleagues stumbled on the blocking ability of the infrared beam while investigating using it to damage mosquito sensory systems.
Times, Sunday Times
It sends an infrared beam out to the surface of the food or drink and 'captures the reflected wavelengths that carry the signature of its composition'.
Times, Sunday Times
It emits a powerful but invisible infrared beam that allows a high-tech camera to capture a clear portrait at a distance of up to five metres, regardless of lighting conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
This worked by using a low power infrared beam (not a laser) from a distance to detect the sound vibrations in the glass windows.
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The sensor chip determines where infrared beam was broken.
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intense beam
Looking at the intense beam causes a short-lived effect similar to staring at the sun forcing the target to turn away.
Times, Sunday Times
At night, an intense beam of light will be projected above the spire, being visible over 1000 ft into the air above the tower.
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The projector emits an intense beam of light above into the sky at an angle that varies with the rotation.
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They are also used in very high power laser systems, which use chains of optical amplifiers to produce an intense beam.
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This will prevent degradation of the detector from the more intense beam energies.
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iron beam
Last week the engineers set up a pontoon, digger and 21m iron beam, which will anchor 200 tonnes of scaffolding.
Times, Sunday Times
Among its engineering features were an early tunnel, a cast iron beam bridge and an outstanding timber viaduct on masonry piers.
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The bridge failed because a cast iron beam was used to support the loads of passing trains.
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A cast iron beam girder bridge was used here to save headway in the street below the line.
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Passengers clutching suitcases are jostling on a narrow platform beneath a corrugated roof and wrought iron beams dating from the 1860s.
Times, Sunday Times
metal beam
All the elements are usually mounted on a metal beam or bracket along the antenna's central axis.
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These piers support a single metal beam carrying a trough with more than 13,000 tonnes of water, 2.2 meters deep.
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Some have developed into more permanent structures, supported by wood and metal beams and other add-ons.
Times, Sunday Times
Running for three weeks, this throbbing, clanging piece of collective art uses the pipes, metal beams and fabric of the building to generate sounds.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the entire metal grate deck and steel truss was replaced in 1995 with a slightly wider modern metal beam structure and an asphalt covered roadway.
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microwave beam
Power for takeoff would be provided by batteries, but the platform would acquire the microwave beam after launch and self-power from that point on.
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A pilot microwave beam emitted from the center of the rectenna on the ground establishes a phase front at the transmitting antenna.
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There has yet to be testing for long-term side effects of exposure to the microwave beam.
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The helicopter carried a rectifying antenna or rectenna array incorporating thousands of diodes to convert the microwave beam into useful electrical power.
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Along the inside the fence there are rows of barbwire, microwave beams and many other security features.
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narrow beam
Some stellar explosions, called gamma-ray bursters, are especially dangerous because all their lethal rays are focused into a narrow beam, like a searchlight.
The Sun
It fired a narrow beam of light at the ground which tracked backwards and forwards as if it were looking for something.
The Sun
To keep from rousing other sleepers, the device uses a set of parametric speakers capable of focusing sound into a narrow beam.
Christianity Today
Focusing on the narrow beam of light they provide can cause a sort of tunnel vision that can trigger feelings of nausea in those prone to motion sickness.
Times, Sunday Times
The sun cast a narrow beam like a flashlight moving over a table as it traced flat circles that varied over the 365-day cycles.
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oak beam
Over the years the huge oak beam that plunges into the wall above my bed has shrunk.
Times, Sunday Times
The bell, weighing 100kg, had been taken from an oak beam.
The Sun
He leapt high into the air and crashed his head against the oak beam running the length of the lounge.
The Sun
A corridor with an open oak beam roofs leads from the lobby to the east wing on the garden side.
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Originally, a gallery, or balcony, existed at the west end of the nave, supported by a massive hewn oak beam.
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original beam
Prices start at 145,000 for a small one-bedder, rising to 495,000 for the largest, a three-bedroom, three-bathroom property over two floors, with original beams.
Times, Sunday Times
Rooms have exposed stone walls and original beams, modern art, wicker sofas and designer lamps.
Times, Sunday Times
It has some of the nicest rooms around, with original beams and dazzling silver decor.
Times, Sunday Times
It has original beams, a stylish kitchen/diner and a garden that leads through gates to a river.
Times, Sunday Times
The laws of classical physics predict that the collection of condensed silver atoms on the plate should form a thin solid line in the same shape as the original beam.
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overhead beam
The other ends were pushed on by means of block and tackle attached to the hull and overhead beams and hauled on by sailors.
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Nearing the peak, one of the overhead beams cracks.
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Overhead beams are exposed on the interior, and the interior walls are composed of unadorned vertical wood siding.
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The entranceway has rectangular overhead beams that span the width of the passageway, wide enough to allow sentries to walk across.
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powerful beam
Every evening, a different pair of fishermen heads out on the boat, searching the water with a powerful beam of light hooked up to a car battery.
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This yields a more powerful beam at the expense of the total number of lasers.
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As they get near, a powerful beam from the planet slices and destroys the enemy ships.
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The sun's rays were focused into such powerful beams by the glass that they ignited a wooden panel under the window sill, eventually setting the entire living room ablaze.
Times, Sunday Times
produce a beam
The stone starts to produce a beam of light which rejuvenates both of them.
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They produce a beam with a central bright area and a diffuse general illumination around it.
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The scanner was built in a manner to produce a beam that was about 40 wide in azimuth and less than 1 high in elevation.
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Photons from the laser beam produce an oscillating polarization in the molecules, exciting them to a virtual energy state.
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Completely independent beams can not usually be combined to produce a beam with higher radiance than each beam has alone.
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proton beam
Similar problems exist with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy and with proton beam therapy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The new fund will look to back innovations that advance the treatment of brain tumours, including medicines and proton beam machines.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It specialises in funding proton beam treatment.
The Sun (2014)
He said he had offered to sell his property to pay for the proton beam.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A proton beam stops and is much less harmful, although the dose of radiation is the same.
The Sun (2015)
roof beam
In the loft, police found a long strap, tied to the roof beam, which dropped through the hatch to the floor.
Times, Sunday Times
He survived by clinging to a roof beam for five hours.
Times, Sunday Times
Fresh problems- most spectacularly the collapse of a roof beam - arose in recent weeks, causing construction progress to slow to a near halt.
Times, Sunday Times
The collapse of a roof beam caused early delays, which were then compounded by problems with sewers, sub-contractors and a row with workers.
Times, Sunday Times
Every roof beam was inspected.
Times, Sunday Times
single beam
He and his colleagues merged them together in a single beam, before using a flash of light to trigger a chemical reaction.
Times, Sunday Times
Single beam spectrophotometers use only one beam of light for measurements.
The Scientist
The principle was simple: while a single beam did little damage to normal tissue, where they crossed the cumulative dose was lethal.
Times, Sunday Times
You should never aim a single beam into the audience.
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In addition to the single beam echo sounder, there are echo sounders that are capable of receiving many return pings.
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steel beam
It was she who designed the open-plan kitchen and dining area and worked with an engineer to conceal the supporting steel beam in the ceiling.
Times, Sunday Times
Because of the steel beam, he wonders if it's connected structurally to the house.
Globe and Mail
He says it's about five feet square and five feet deep, with thick, reinforced concrete walls and a steel beam across the top.
Globe and Mail
It was a steel beam bridge 319m ft long, convert wide and carried on two double pylons of reinforced concrete 68 m high.
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In separate incidents during construction in 1959, a 20ft m steel beam and a brick fell to street level from upper floors.
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structural beam
This will need to be dampproofed and the new access will require a structural beam.
Times, Sunday Times
He also expressed irritation at the theatre's squares being cast into shadow and the prospect of theatregoers emerging during an interval to a view of structural beams and supports.
Times, Sunday Times
Half of its 129 rooms have been made into duplexes with oversized windows and exposed structural beams.
Times, Sunday Times
The ceiling already has a couple of structural beams holding it up; additional joists could be added to give it a more deliberate attic appearance.
Times, Sunday Times
In the simplest cases vertical structural beams are driven into the ground directly.
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sun beam
At noon, a sun beam through the hole, alit on the meridian strip.
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Yet, here we were yesterday, with the sun beaming, wind blowing and stumps in the ground, waiting four hours for the game to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
Their symbol of a rising red sun with red sun beams over a white background.
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support beam
With only 15 seconds to take cover, he stepped under a reinforced support beam in the ceiling.
Times, Sunday Times
A red dot painted on a support beam in a train station signalled that he was to return immediately.
Times, Sunday Times
Investigators later identified cracks in the main support beam connecting the wing to the fuselage.
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The tin has a slight cove around the edges and central support beam.
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As he made his escape, he hit his head on a wooden support beam and fell off the roof, but survived.
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timber beam
The two ground-floor rooms have a massive timber beam running through them, with neat rows of floor joists notched in.
Times, Sunday Times
There's not a timber beam in sight.
Times, Sunday Times
The timber beam consisted of single wooden king post with wrought iron straps and wooden arch heads at each end.
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The bridge has 16 timber beam spans of 13.7 m and one wrought iron and timber lifting span of 20.3 m supported by cast iron piers.
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However, good period features remain, such as exposed timber beams and an inglenook fireplace.
Times, Sunday Times
tractor beam
He spots us and realises his mistake immediately as the head fixes him in his tractor beam and orders him out.
Times, Sunday Times
Now scientists claim to have developed the first real tractor beam - on a much smaller scale.
Times, Sunday Times
Welcome to the property market in the capital — and anywhere within its commutable tractor beam.
Times, Sunday Times
In vehicle mode used a tractor beam which he uses to haul cargo as large as himself while flying.
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In other lightcraft concepts, the laser arrives at the vehicle from above, and operates as an ablative laser tractor beam.
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wide beam
He got his nickname at 13 after being seen creeping along a five-inch wide beam 50ft up to evade police.
The Sun
She has a wide beam and sits low in the water.
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She was constructed without armaments, with a wide beam to provide space for cargo.
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The forty-year-old fell four feet (1.2 m) into the water while working on an 18 inch (46 cm) wide beam.
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Spoiled parabolic antennas produce a narrow beam in one dimension and a relatively wide beam in the other.
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wood beam
Rather than open beams, the room has a plaster ceiling formed into rectangular panels but leaving the central wood beam uncovered.
Times, Sunday Times
In knocking down a wall to merge the two rooms, he found an ancient structural wood beam, so naturally kept it.
Times, Sunday Times
Houses and their interiors was built of wood beam.
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It was made out of a yellow wood beam salvaged from the old school building when it was demolished in 1949.
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A solid, circular section wood beam was inserted into this steel tube, extending it rearwards.
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wooden beam
When workmen began cutting through a horizontal wooden beam that ran across the outside wall of the house, the building started to fall in.
Times, Sunday Times
Usually the chair was fastened to a long wooden beam fixed as a seesaw on the edge of a pond or river.
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On the ground floor of the right wing, a restaurant was put in, with wooden beam ceiling and a spacious cloakroom.
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Its wooden beam was too rotten to be preserved and a replacement was made.
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A wooden beam had been suspended between two trestles at right-angles across the sidewalk.
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x-ray beam
For a synchrotron radiation facility, for example, the electron beam produces an x-ray beam that then travels down a beamline before reaching the experiment.
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Film thicknesses may range from a few nm to several 100 nm, and such thin films are still fully penetrated by the x-ray beam.
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The peak spectral radiance and the average spectral radiance are both important properties of an x-ray beam.
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In a synchrotron light source, low emittance means that the resulting x-ray beam will be small, and result in higher brightness.
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In the early days, radiotherapy was comparatively crude: patients were blasted with x-ray beams from different directions, aimed in such a way as to converge on the tumour.
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