I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beaming/radiant smile (= when you are very happy )
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‘I’m so pleased,’ she told him with a beaming smile.
a beam/ray/shaft of light (= a thin line of light )
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There was a shaft of light from the doorway.
a shaft/ray/beam of sunlight
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A shaft of sunlight illuminated the left side of his face.
balance beam
full beam
high beams
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
low
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The low beams of a car flickered as it curved the bend in the road.
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His silks, his plaited hair, his very foreign-ness seemed out of place amongst the low oak beams and sturdy yeoman furniture.
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Corbett, unused to the gentle rocking of the ship and the low beams , banged his head as he straightened up.
main
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At one curve in the road the driver stopped and flashed his main beams .
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Between the main beams , lengths of steel decking are laid side by side, each hooking into its neighbor.
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At this point, the outer edge of the box will simply be resting on the main beam .
narrow
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Sam Oglethorpe's narrow beam of light showed it to be swinging open.
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Unless the narrow pencil beam was pointed precisely at Earth, they could neither receive nor transmit.
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The positive ions are accelerated to a narrow beam by the use of negative plates and a high voltage.
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The torch is switched on by twisting the head and you can choose between either a narrow or wide beam .
old
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There are many fine old beams .
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Problem: Thirdfloor rear walls in old rowhouses often are masonry supported only by an old wood beam at the level below.
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A typical students' pub, full of old beams and smoke and noise.
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The Jolly Judge has some interesting old beams and painted murals.
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Cream, maybe ... magnolia; go better with the old beams .
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Sandy was suspended by a rope attached to an old beam next to the ladder leading to the tower.
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In the new pine kitchen, old beams are still very much at home.
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Inside there are old beams , inglenook fireplaces, oriental carpets and a warm and friendly ambience.
wooden
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The roofs are flat, fully exposed to the rain, made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams .
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Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet, constructed of two weathered wooden beams .
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All the tables and chairs are of solid dark wood to match the dark stained original wooden beams of the mill.
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It was made of corrugated metal and wooden beams and had scores of windows that could be broken but not shattered.
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
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The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls.
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Beam fire: A wooden beam in a chimney caught fire at a house in Darlington Road, Northallerton.
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Their nest is in the wooden beams , some 15 feet above the floor.
■ NOUN
electron
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Alternatively, electron beam machines are used.
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Fire a high energy electron beam at a metal target and bremsstrahlung effect produces intense X-rays.
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A basic example occurs in an electron beam - so important in television and radio.
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The device is fabricated in Gallium Arsenide using electron beam lithography to define special side-gated channels.
engine
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At Wanlockhead, to the south, the Straitsteps mine remains include a primitive water-powered beam engine for draining the mine.
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Murdock's sun and planet gear to obtain rotary motion from Watt's beam engines .
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He invented the Cornish engine , a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines.
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Five pairs of nineteenth-century fulling stocks are preserved here, as well as the eighteen-foot breastshot waterwheel and a rotative beam engine .
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An 1840 Cornish beam engine remains at the Levant mine, and is preserved by the National Trust.
laser
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Its motion can be detected - for example, by deflecting a laser beam that bounces off a mirror attached to the needle.
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Even in a stream of traffic the laser beam can isolate the offending vehicles with an accurate read out of speed and range.
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For obvious reasons, laser beams or submerged fluorescent wires can not be used to mark the start line.
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Calibration is done insitu using a chopped laser beam to provide a known heat increment.
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Stereolithography works by steering laser beams through a photosensitive liquid that solidifies when it is exposed to enough light.
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In this technique atoms have their velocities reduced by running head-on into a laser beam tuned to their transition frequency.
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The encoding is done by a fine laser beam burning a series of microscopic pits into the disc surface.
steel
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A framework of steel beams supports the concrete slab floor plates.
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And now the hospital bill hovered overhead too, yet one more steel beam threatening to bring them all down.
torch
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Down below, he could see the single torch beam which illuminated Devlin, the girl and Gilbert.
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They gazed into my torch beam like cons caught in razor wire.
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Caught in the torch beam were a pair of eyes, glittering ebony pupils widening in shock.
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Bernice ran forward into the darkness, her torch beam bobbing in front of her.
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He swept the torch beam round the short passage and saw the two cell doors on his left were ajar.
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Something scuttled out of the torch beam , hopping across the ceiling lathes into the shadows.
■ VERB
produce
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The launcher for the medium-range version will incorporate a projector that produces a beam of infrared radiation.
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It is also produced by the projector beam in a smoky cinema.
shine
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Darken the room. Shine the flashlight beam at the bowl.
support
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A girder is a beam that supports other beams or is made up of separate beams joined together.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broad in the beam
on full beam
supporting wall/beam etc
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The roof was in an appalling state and the supporting beams were rotten.
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There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 55-ton concrete beam
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Maggie stumbled across the field with only a narrow beam of light from her flashlight to help her.
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We could see the beams of searchlights scanning the sky.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Break the beam and it shoots you.
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He thought about hanging himself from the roof beam , but lacked the resolve.
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Her head hit the beam and she slid down and hit her shoulder.
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Q.. My ceiling has painted beams that intersect at several crossing points.
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The Commission will, of course, have a spy beam on our conversation.
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The following day Paula's body was found hanging from a beam in the garage.
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Using handholds in the wood to steady herself, she crept back along the beam , hauling Simon along with her.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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Then Shaaban arrived - strongly built, short in height, his dark flat-featured face beaming with pleasure.
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Miss Sadie paused for a moment, her face beaming , and looked around the room.
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Three faces lit up, beaming in upon what they thought was a crucial fact.
pleasure
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Kirov ran across the room, beaming with pleasure .
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I tried the new version, and Loi beamed with pleasure .
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Then Shaaban arrived - strongly built, short in height, his dark flat-featured face beaming with pleasure .
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He beamed with pleasure at her attention and, hoping Harry would notice, Cora-Beth began flirting with him.
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BDe Mori beams with pleasure and shakes hands all around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beam me out of here!
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After the song was over, Miss Timms beamed at the class.
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At the celebration, he beamed proudly.
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Daddy sat in the first pew, beaming with pride.
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Her parents stood there beaming as she went up to receive the prize.
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Just a short time before, they had been beaming with optimism.
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The images are beamed directly from a satellite.
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The water sparkled and the sun beamed brightly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even Sabina was pleased, and Gabby was beaming.
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Farther down the line, 13-year-old Anne Fischer of Northridge beamed with excitement.
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Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy, he said.
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Ralph nodded, beamed, situated his hat.
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The curtains opened again and Uncle Philip stood next to his doll, beaming proudly.
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The fans cheered, and the athletes beamed.
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They mug for cameras, hug their parents, and beam with pride.