Definitions of beam
British English : beam 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. VERBShe beamed at her friend with undisguised admiration.He approached with outstretched arms, beaming a smile of welcome.
noun
- a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc, esp one used as a horizontal structural member
- any rigid member or structure that is loaded transversely
- the breadth of a ship or boat taken at its widest part, usually amidships
- a ray or column of light, as from a beacon
- a broad smile
- one of the two cylindrical rollers on a loom, one of which holds the warp threads before weaving, the other the finished work
- the main stem of a deer's antler from which the smaller branches grow
- the central shaft of a plough to which all the main parts are attached
- a narrow unidirectional flow of electromagnetic radiation or particles ⇒ a beam of light , an electron beam
- the horizontal centrally pivoted bar in a balance
- (informal ) the width of the hips (esp in the phrase broad in the beam)
- See a beam in one's eye
- See off beam
- See on the beam
verb
- to send out or radiate (rays of light)
- (transitive) to divert or aim (a radio signal or broadcast, light, etc) in a certain direction ⇒ to beam a programme to Tokyo
- to pass (data, esp business card details, etc) from one hand-held computer to another by means of infrared beams
- (intransitive) to smile broadly with pleasure or satisfaction