BEAM

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Traducere în limba română

beam I. substantiv

1. grindă, traversă, bară; fermă;

the beam in your eye bârna din ochiul tău.

2. sul (la războiul de ţesut).

3. (înv. ) vargă.

4. (şi walking / working beam) (tehn.) balanţă, braţ de balanţă;

to kick / to strike the beam a) (despre balanţă) a se ridica până sus; b) (fig.) a suferi o înfrângere; c) (fig.) a nu avea (nici o) greutate, a nu avea însemnătate, a nu atârna în balanţă; a-şi pierde importanţa;

(fig.) to tip / turn the beam a răsturna cumpăna, a avea o importanţă hotărâtoare.

5. (mar.) traversă; grinzile transversale care susţin puntea; traversa ancorei;

on the port beam travers în babord;

abaft the beam înapoia traversului.

6. (agr.) grindei (de plug).

7. trunchiul coarnelor de cerb.

8. rază; fascicul de raze, mănunchi de raze (de lumină sau de căldură).

9. (fig.) iradiere, aureolă, nimb.

◊ (amer. sl.) to be on the beam a) (despre persoane) a fi pe drumul cel bun; b) (despre mecanisme) a funcţiona normal;

to be off the beam a) (despre persoane) a fi pe o pistă greşită; b) (despre mecanisme) a funcţiona prost.

beam II. verb A. tranzitiv

a radia, a dirija raze spre.

beam II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a radia, a străluci.

2. (fig.) a radia, a zâmbi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

That full moon of November 12 will be very friendly, receiving golden beams from both Saturn and Pluto in your eighth house of other people’s money.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Based on the difference between the 2 beams, the bone density can be measured.

(Dual x-ray absorptiometry, NCI Thesaurus)

Her lips are curved and her face beams with happiness.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

In her beaming smile, and in these last tones of her cheerful voice, I seemed again to see and hear my little Dora in her company.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them?

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It was good to see him beam at 'my children', as he called the young pair.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She kissed me, and still keeping me at her side (where I was well contented to stand, for I derived a child's pleasure from the contemplation of her face, her dress, her one or two ornaments, her white forehead, her clustered and shining curls, and beaming dark eyes), she proceeded to address Helen Burns.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Radiation therapy using photon beam.

(Photon beam radiation therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called external-beam radiation therapy.

(External radiation therapy, NCI Dictionary)

The bird came down, and all the twenty millers set to and lifted up the stone with a beam; then the bird put his head through the hole and took the stone round his neck like a collar, and flew back with it to the tree.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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