beaconn.

/ˈbiːkən/

Forms: Old English béacen, becen, becun, Middle English bæcen, Middle English bikene, bekne, Middle English bekene, beeken, Middle English–1500s beken, bekyn, 1500s bekin, beakon, 1500s– beacon, south-western dialect bick'n.

Etymology: Old English béacn (neuter) = Old Frisian bácen, bę́cen, Old Saxon bôkan, Middle Dutch bôkin, -en, Old High German bouhhan, Middle High German bouchen < Germanic *baukno(m). Not known outside of Germanic. (In this and the following words in bea- the occasional identity of the Old English and modern spellings is not due to continuity of form, the two being separated by a Middle English spelling in e , ee , which prevailed for more than 3 centuries. Modern ea represents not merely Old English éa and ea , but also many other Old English and Old French vowels, as seen in bead , beadle , beak , bear , beast . See ea at E n.¹)

†1. A sign, a portent. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]

foretokenc888

tokeningc888

beaconc950

token971

handsela1200

boding1297

wonder1297

bodec1374

signa1387

foreboding1387

prenostica1393

prognosticc1425

prophetc1430

prognostication?a1439

ostentationa1450

prenostication?a1450

prodigy?a1450

augurationc1450

preparative1460

prenosticate?a1475

prenosticative?a1475

prodige1482

prenosticature1490

tokener1513

weird1513

show token1535

luck1538

prognosticate1541

preamble1548

proffer1548

presagition?c1550

foreshower1555

presage1560

portent1562

ostent1570

presagie1581

omen1582

presagement1586

luck sign1587

augury1588

prognosticon1588

forerunner1589

presager1591

halfner1594

spae1596

abode1598

oss1600

assign1601

augur1603

bodement1613

predictiona1616

prognosticala1618

bespeaker1624

portender1635

pre-indicant1659

foreshadow1834

boder1846

prognosticant1880

sky sign1880

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John iv. 48 Buta beceno & soða uundra gie gesee, ne gelefeð gie.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 48 Tacna & fore-beacna.

c1160 Hatton G. Tacne & fore-bæcne.

†2. An ensign, standard. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard

senyec900

beaconOE

markOE

banner?c1225

here-markec1275

ensignc1400

standard?a1439

standard1497

armory1523

flag1530

handsenyie1545

ancient1554

labarum1563

antsign1571

ensign-staff1707

brattach1828

OE Beowulf 2777 Segn éac genom, béacna beorhtost.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 471 Religioun shal be shewid in sensible signes, as habitis, and bikenes, & hye housis.

1483 Cath. Angl. 26/1 A Bekyn or a standard, statela.

3. A signal; spec. a signal-fire.

a. A burning cresset raised on a pole, or fixed at the top of a building.[ Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 64 says he finds it ordained about the eleventh year of Edward III that beacons ‘should be high standards with their pitchpots.’]

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > beacon > on a pole or building

beacona1859

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Armada The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgcombe's lofty hall.

c1870 J. Thorne Environs London 266 From it [the tower of Monken Hadley Church] projects the ancient iron beacon, one of the last of its kind left.

b. A fire, of wood, pitch, or other material, lighted on an eminence and serving as a signal (of danger, etc.); by a chain of beacons at convenient distances apart, tidings could be rapidly spread over a wide area.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > beacon

beacon1377

lightc1425

firebome1440

bale1455

cresset-light1525

flambeau1688

coal-light1775

bale-fire1805

needfire1805

ward-fire1859

beaconage1862

fanal-

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 262 Ȝe brenne, but ȝe blaseth nouȝte, þat is a blynde bekene.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccvi. 188 That men shold tende the bekenes that the countrey myght be warned.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome 348 (Jam.) He tuke thare tentis..and incontinent made ane bekin of reik.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. iii. 9 Publike trees..which being kindled by the Kings command, giue notice to the people..and these they call Beacons.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. viii. 137 Signal of Ronald's high command, A beacon gleam'd o'er sea and land.

Thesaurus »

Categories »

c. = Belisha n.

4. Hence gen. A signal station, watchtower.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place

garret1340

tooting-towera1382

watch-house1482

watchtower1544

watch-stand1610

beacon1611

mount1612

belfry1631

lookout1662

mirador1672

lookout tower1748

toot1770

watch point1893

observation post1909

lookout station1928

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > signal station or watch-tower

firehouse1450

beacon1611

signal station1803

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxi. 49 Therefore was the name of it called..Mizpah [margin. that is a beacon or watchtower].

1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. 104 On the eminencies beacons were established, for alarming the country.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xviii. 181 Ascertained by the erection of beacons at suitable distances.

a. A conspicuous hill commanding a good view of the surrounding country, on which beacons were (or might be) lighted. Still applied to such hills in various parts of Britain; e.g. Brecon Beacons near Abergavenny, Dunkery Beacon on Exmoor, Culmstock Beacon, Cothelstone Beacon, etc. (On some of these the beacon towers still exist.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > other

holt1567

beacon1597

ward-hill?a1680

nubble1776

sub-mountain1799

drumlinoid1895

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > hill where fire is lit

beacon1597

ward-hill?a1680

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xvi. 58 He lies vpon a beacons side With watchfull eie to circumscribe their traine.

1882 Athenæum 26 Aug. 265/3 Nothing can bring up the image of chalk country like the words combe, dean, beacon.

†b. A division of a wapentake; probably a district throughout which a beacon could be seen, or which was bound to furnish one. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > wapentake > division of

beacona1642

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 95 There is in everie weapontacke soe many severall divisions or beacons..there is in the weapontacke of Harthill fower beacons,..Bainton beacon, Hunsley beacon [etc.].

a. A lighthouse or other conspicuous object placed upon the coast or at sea, to warn vessels of danger or direct their course.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > beacon

beacon1397

warder1584

OE Beowulf 3160 Hl[ǽw] on [h]liðe..[wǽ]gliðendum wide g[e]sýne..beadurófes bécn.]

1397 Act 21 Rich. III xviii. §1 Les Beekenes devant la port Moeqes.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQiii The beken lyghted in the nyght, directeth the mariner..to the port entended.

1684 London Gaz. No. 1911/4 In the place of the Shore Beacon, there is at present a white Buoy laid.

1837 N. Hawthorne Amer. Notebks. (1972) iii. 165 A ledge of rocks, with a beacon upon it.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xvii. 28 My blessing..Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home.

b. figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > cautionary advice or admonition

warningc1000

monishinga1382

admonition?c1400

monitionc1400

advertisementc1475

monishment1483

premonishment?1548

document1549

caveat1557

warner1565

commonition1566

monitory?1567

commonefaction1576

memento1580

lessoning1583

alarm1608

beacon1609

cautiona1616

documentation1753

heads up1977

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 15 Modest doubt is calld The beacon of the wise.

1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. Introd. 3 My errors may be of use, by serving as beacons to direct into the right course men of greater learning.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 84 Great brother souls, flame-beacons through so many lands and times.

c. Aeronautics. A light placed at or in the vicinity of an aerodrome for the guidance of pilots; also attributive.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > light for guidance of aircraft

traffic light1912

beacon1918

flare path1919

airway beacon1926

obstruction light1934

marker1936

fixed light1960

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 9 Aërial Lighthouses, aerial beacons to guide aviators at night through the atmospheric ocean.

1927 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft (1928) xvii. 700 These beacons are usually mounted on towers of sufficient height so that they will be above obstacles which might obstruct the beam.

1930 Aircraft Engin. II. 211 Night Beacons for Night Flying.

1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 228/2 Beacon lights, which mark major airways and airports..consist of a searchlight which throws a beam of white light elevated several degrees above the horizontal.

d. A radio transmitter enabling pilots to fix their position or the aerodrome staff to locate, identify, or guide aircraft; also marker beacon, radio beacon, and attributive.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > radio beam or beacon

beacon1919

localizer1922

beam1927

landing beam1929

marker beacon1929

fan marker1948

1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 49/2 What is a radio beacon?

1922 Nature 20 May 650/1 Until two or three years ago the radiophares—or radio-beacons as they are called in America—were purely stations for giving ships their positions.

1929 Techn. News Bull., Bureau of Standards Nov. 108 The Bureau has found it necessary to give..attention to marker beacons, for two purposes. One is the adaptation of the marker beacon principle for use..on the airways in connection with the visual beacon system. Another is the provision of marker beacons as auxiliaries..with fog-landing equipment.

1932 F. E. Terman Radio Engin. xvi. 593 The instant when the received beacon signal goes through zero.

1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 591 An analysis of the flight of an aeroplane, when directed by means of a radio beacon.

1962 Times 21 Feb. 10/2 Direct communication with the capsule was briefly lost as it reentered the atmosphere because of an ionization process, but beacon signals were received.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as beacon-bell, beacon-blaze, beacon-grate, beacon-place, beacon-turret, beacon-vessel; also beacon-wise adv.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [adverb] > in manner of beacon

beacon-wise1548

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > place where a beacon is set

beacon-place1548

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > grate of a beacon

beacon-grate1820

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > beacon > types of

watereOE

Jack in the Basket1710

balize1847

beacon-bell1862

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xix. f. 154 Out of the beakon place of the Crosse.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 8/1 in Chron. I He gaue knowledge thereof to his wyfe, in raysing a fyre on heygte beaconwyse.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. xxii. 30 By that blithe beacon-light they steer'd.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iv. 161 The glow-worm, which makes a goodly show among the grass of the field, would be of little avail if deposited in a beacon-grate.

1862 C. Norton Lady of La Garaye Ded. 30 A voice whose sound Came like a beacon-bell, heard clear above The whirl of violent waters.

Draft additions December 2002

beacon school n. a school with an exceptionally good record and reputation, to which others look as an example; (spec. in the U.K.) one of a number of such schools which, since 1998, have been granted extra government funding in return for advising other schools on their methods.

ΚΠ

1981 R. A. Dentler & M. B. Scott Schools on Trial iv. 100 The beacon schools concept..was a warmed-over version of a part of Coakley's 1975 plan that had been rejected by the masters and entailed proliferating magnet schools within the eight community districts.

1986 Washington Post 15 Feb. a26/1 School systems throughout the country are now learning to look carefully at these exceptional schools and develop ways to replicate their methods more widely. In Cleveland, one of these beacon schools is Forest Hill Parkway Elementary.

1998 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 30 Apr. Some of the country's most successful schools are to take a more active role in raising education standards, school standards minister Stephen Byers announced today. He unveiled a £1.8 million programme to create a network of 100 ‘beacon schools’.

2002 Clevedon (Somerset) Mercury (Electronic ed.) 19 June This week 166 new beacon schools took the total in the UK to 1,150. Each one gets about £36,000 to pay for work with other schools, sharing knowledge and practices.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	beacon
释义	beaconn. /ˈbiːkən/ Forms: Old English béacen, becen, becun, Middle English bæcen, Middle English bikene, bekne, Middle English bekene, beeken, Middle English–1500s beken, bekyn, 1500s bekin, beakon, 1500s– beacon, south-western dialect bick'n. Etymology: Old English béacn (neuter) = Old Frisian bácen, bę́cen, Old Saxon bôkan, Middle Dutch bôkin, -en, Old High German bouhhan, Middle High German bouchen < Germanic baukno(m). Not known outside of Germanic. (In this and the following words in bea-* the occasional identity of the Old English and modern spellings is not due to continuity of form, the two being separated by a Middle English spelling in e , ee , which prevailed for more than 3 centuries. Modern ea represents not merely Old English éa and ea , but also many other Old English and Old French vowels, as seen in bead , beadle , beak , bear , beast . See ea at E n.¹) †1. A sign, a portent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] foretokenc888 tokeningc888 beaconc950 token971 handsela1200 boding1297 wonder1297 bodec1374 signa1387 foreboding1387 prenostica1393 prognosticc1425 prophetc1430 prognostication?a1439 ostentationa1450 prenostication?a1450 prodigy?a1450 augurationc1450 preparative1460 prenosticate?a1475 prenosticative?a1475 prodige1482 prenosticature1490 tokener1513 weird1513 show token1535 luck1538 prognosticate1541 preamble1548 proffer1548 presagition?c1550 foreshower1555 presage1560 portent1562 ostent1570 presagie1581 omen1582 presagement1586 luck sign1587 augury1588 prognosticon1588 forerunner1589 presager1591 halfner1594 spae1596 abode1598 oss1600 assign1601 augur1603 bodement1613 predictiona1616 prognosticala1618 bespeaker1624 portender1635 pre-indicant1659 foreshadow1834 boder1846 prognosticant1880 sky sign1880 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John iv. 48 Buta beceno & soða uundra gie gesee, ne gelefeð gie. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 48 Tacna & fore-beacna. c1160 Hatton G. Tacne & fore-bæcne. †2. An ensign, standard. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard senyec900 beaconOE markOE banner?c1225 here-markec1275 ensignc1400 standard?a1439 standard1497 armory1523 flag1530 handsenyie1545 ancient1554 labarum1563 antsign1571 ensign-staff1707 brattach1828 OE Beowulf 2777 Segn éac genom, béacna beorhtost. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 471 Religioun shal be shewid in sensible signes, as habitis, and bikenes, & hye housis. 1483 Cath. Angl. 26/1 A Bekyn or a standard, statela. 3. A signal; spec. a signal-fire. a. A burning cresset raised on a pole, or fixed at the top of a building.[ Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 64 says he finds it ordained about the eleventh year of Edward III that beacons ‘should be high standards with their pitchpots.’] ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > beacon > on a pole or building beacona1859 a1859 T. B. Macaulay Armada The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgcombe's lofty hall. c1870 J. Thorne Environs London 266 From it [the tower of Monken Hadley Church] projects the ancient iron beacon, one of the last of its kind left. b. A fire, of wood, pitch, or other material, lighted on an eminence and serving as a signal (of danger, etc.); by a chain of beacons at convenient distances apart, tidings could be rapidly spread over a wide area. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > beacon beacon1377 lightc1425 firebome1440 bale1455 cresset-light1525 flambeau1688 coal-light1775 bale-fire1805 needfire1805 ward-fire1859 beaconage1862 fanal- 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 262 Ȝe brenne, but ȝe blaseth nouȝte, þat is a blynde bekene. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccvi. 188 That men shold tende the bekenes that the countrey myght be warned. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome 348 (Jam.) He tuke thare tentis..and incontinent made ane bekin of reik. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. iii. 9 Publike trees..which being kindled by the Kings command, giue notice to the people..and these they call Beacons. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. viii. 137 Signal of Ronald's high command, A beacon gleam'd o'er sea and land. Thesaurus » Categories » c. = Belisha n. 4. Hence gen. A signal station, watchtower. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place garret1340 tooting-towera1382 watch-house1482 watchtower1544 watch-stand1610 beacon1611 mount1612 belfry1631 lookout1662 mirador1672 lookout tower1748 toot1770 watch point1893 observation post1909 lookout station1928 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > signal station or watch-tower firehouse1450 beacon1611 signal station1803 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxi. 49 Therefore was the name of it called..Mizpah [margin. that is a beacon or watchtower]. 1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. 104 On the eminencies beacons were established, for alarming the country. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xviii. 181 Ascertained by the erection of beacons at suitable distances. 5. a. A conspicuous hill commanding a good view of the surrounding country, on which beacons were (or might be) lighted. Still applied to such hills in various parts of Britain; e.g. Brecon Beacons near Abergavenny, Dunkery Beacon on Exmoor, Culmstock Beacon, Cothelstone Beacon, etc. (On some of these the beacon towers still exist.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > other holt1567 beacon1597 ward-hill?a1680 nubble1776 sub-mountain1799 drumlinoid1895 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > hill where fire is lit beacon1597 ward-hill?a1680 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xvi. 58 He lies vpon a beacons side With watchfull eie to circumscribe their traine. 1882 Athenæum 26 Aug. 265/3 Nothing can bring up the image of chalk country like the words combe, dean, beacon. †b. A division of a wapentake; probably a district throughout which a beacon could be seen, or which was bound to furnish one. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > wapentake > division of beacona1642 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 95 There is in everie weapontacke soe many severall divisions or beacons..there is in the weapontacke of Harthill fower beacons,..Bainton beacon, Hunsley beacon [etc.]. 6. a. A lighthouse or other conspicuous object placed upon the coast or at sea, to warn vessels of danger or direct their course. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > beacon beacon1397 warder1584 OE Beowulf 3160 Hl[ǽw] on [h]liðe..[wǽ]gliðendum wide g[e]sýne..beadurófes bécn.] 1397 Act 21 Rich. III xviii. §1 Les Beekenes devant la port Moeqes. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQiii The beken lyghted in the nyght, directeth the mariner..to the port entended. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1911/4 In the place of the Shore Beacon, there is at present a white Buoy laid. 1837 N. Hawthorne Amer. Notebks. (1972) iii. 165 A ledge of rocks, with a beacon upon it. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xvii. 28 My blessing..Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home. View more context for this quotation b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > cautionary advice or admonition warningc1000 monishinga1382 admonition?c1400 monitionc1400 advertisementc1475 monishment1483 premonishment?1548 document1549 caveat1557 warner1565 commonition1566 monitory?1567 commonefaction1576 memento1580 lessoning1583 alarm1608 beacon1609 cautiona1616 documentation1753 heads up1977 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 15 Modest doubt is calld The beacon of the wise. View more context for this quotation 1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. Introd. 3 My errors may be of use, by serving as beacons to direct into the right course men of greater learning. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 84 Great brother souls, flame-beacons through so many lands and times. c. Aeronautics. A light placed at or in the vicinity of an aerodrome for the guidance of pilots; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > light for guidance of aircraft traffic light1912 beacon1918 flare path1919 airway beacon1926 obstruction light1934 marker1936 fixed light1960 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 9 Aërial Lighthouses, aerial beacons to guide aviators at night through the atmospheric ocean. 1927 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft (1928) xvii. 700 These beacons are usually mounted on towers of sufficient height so that they will be above obstacles which might obstruct the beam. 1930 Aircraft Engin. II. 211 Night Beacons for Night Flying. 1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 228/2 Beacon lights, which mark major airways and airports..consist of a searchlight which throws a beam of white light elevated several degrees above the horizontal. d. A radio transmitter enabling pilots to fix their position or the aerodrome staff to locate, identify, or guide aircraft; also marker beacon, radio beacon, and attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > radio beam or beacon beacon1919 localizer1922 beam1927 landing beam1929 marker beacon1929 fan marker1948 1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 49/2 What is a radio beacon? 1922 Nature 20 May 650/1 Until two or three years ago the radiophares—or radio-beacons as they are called in America—were purely stations for giving ships their positions. 1929 Techn. News Bull., Bureau of Standards Nov. 108 The Bureau has found it necessary to give..attention to marker beacons, for two purposes. One is the adaptation of the marker beacon principle for use..on the airways in connection with the visual beacon system. Another is the provision of marker beacons as auxiliaries..with fog-landing equipment. 1932 F. E. Terman Radio Engin. xvi. 593 The instant when the received beacon signal goes through zero. 1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 591 An analysis of the flight of an aeroplane, when directed by means of a radio beacon. 1962 Times 21 Feb. 10/2 Direct communication with the capsule was briefly lost as it reentered the atmosphere because of an ionization process, but beacon signals were received. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as beacon-bell, beacon-blaze, beacon-grate, beacon-place, beacon-turret, beacon-vessel; also beacon-wise adv. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [adverb] > in manner of beacon beacon-wise1548 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > place where a beacon is set beacon-place1548 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > grate of a beacon beacon-grate1820 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > beacon > types of watereOE Jack in the Basket1710 balize1847 beacon-bell1862 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xix. f. 154 Out of the beakon place of the Crosse. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 8/1 in Chron. I He gaue knowledge thereof to his wyfe, in raysing a fyre on heygte beaconwyse. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. xxii. 30 By that blithe beacon-light they steer'd. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iv. 161 The glow-worm, which makes a goodly show among the grass of the field, would be of little avail if deposited in a beacon-grate. 1862 C. Norton Lady of La Garaye Ded. 30 A voice whose sound Came like a beacon-bell, heard clear above The whirl of violent waters. Draft additions December 2002 beacon school n. a school with an exceptionally good record and reputation, to which others look as an example; (spec. in the U.K.) one of a number of such schools which, since 1998, have been granted extra government funding in return for advising other schools on their methods. ΚΠ 1981 R. A. Dentler & M. B. Scott Schools on Trial iv. 100 The beacon schools concept..was a warmed-over version of a part of Coakley's 1975 plan that had been rejected by the masters and entailed proliferating magnet schools within the eight community districts. 1986 Washington Post 15 Feb. a26/1 School systems throughout the country are now learning to look carefully at these exceptional schools and develop ways to replicate their methods more widely. In Cleveland, one of these beacon schools is Forest Hill Parkway Elementary. 1998 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 30 Apr. Some of the country's most successful schools are to take a more active role in raising education standards, school standards minister Stephen Byers announced today. He unveiled a £1.8 million programme to create a network of 100 ‘beacon schools’. 2002 Clevedon (Somerset) Mercury (Electronic ed.) 19 June This week 166 new beacon schools took the total in the UK to 1,150. Each one gets about £36,000 to pay for work with other schools, sharing knowledge and practices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). beaconv. /ˈbiːkən/ Etymology: < beacon n. †1. transitive. to beacon up: to raise or kindle as a beacon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > illumination > illuminate [verb (transitive)] > with or as with fire inflame1477 bonfire1605 to beacon up1644 kindle1685 beacon1803 flare1853 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 30 We have lookt so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beacon'd up to us. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs Pref. 13 A greater light in Physick then what Galen has beaconed up to us. 2. a. To light up, as a beacon-fire does. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > illumination > illuminate [verb (transitive)] > with or as with fire inflame1477 bonfire1605 to beacon up1644 kindle1685 beacon1803 flare1853 1803 T. Campbell Poems 3 'Tis the fireshower of ruin..that beacons the darkness of Heaven. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. xxxvii. 267 Where far the mansion of her sires Beaconed the dale with midnight fires. b. figurative. To give light and guidance to; to lead. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > guide wieldeOE steera1000 wisc1000 wiseOE turnc1175 kenc1200 conduec1330 dressc1330 govern1340 addressc1350 guidea1400 conducec1475 conduct1481 rectifya1500 besteer1603 helm1607 engineer1831 beacon1835 1835 R. Browning Paracelsus ii. 49 Some one truth would dimly beacon me..Into assured light. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 11 Whose far glories beacon him..as he rises step by step. 3. To furnish with beacons; to mark the position of, by beacons or a beacon. Occasionally with off, out. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with beacons beacon1821 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 13 Thy wisdom..bids me dare Beacon the rocks on which high hearts are wreckt. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 174 The..Channel..is as good as buoyed and beaconed by the..Rock and..Reefs. 1883 Daily News 12 June 5/2 The Boers have beaconed out a boundary. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Nov. 2/1 The boundary has never been beaconed off. 4. intransitive. To shine like a beacon. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)] > like or with a specific thing or quality shinea1616 beacon1821 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais lv. 25 The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. 1864 Notes & Queries V. 210 Arcturus beaconed from his zenith tower to Cepheus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c950v.1644
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