Beam vs Bright - What's the difference?
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Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid - supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
(nautical) The maximum width of a vessel
The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
*(rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
(literary) The pole of a carriage.(rfc-sense)
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(textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
The straight part or shank of an anchor.
The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
A ray or collection of approximatelyly parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=September 22
, author=Nick Collins
, title=Speed of light 'broken' by scientists
, work=Daily Telegraph
(figuratively) A ray; a gleam
* (rfdate) Keble
One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
(music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
(ambitransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
(figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
To furnish or supply with beams; give the appearance of beams to.
(science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
(currying) To stretch on a beam, as a hide.
(weaving) To put on a beam, as a chain or web.
(music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
*Sir (Francis Drake) (c.1540-1596)
*:The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright .
* (1800-1859)
*:The public places were as bright as at noonday.
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:The sun was bright o'erhead.
Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
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* Episode 16
*:—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
Happy, in (soplink).
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*1937 , , (The Hobbit) , Ch.11:
*:Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare.
Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Be bright and jovial among your guests.
Illustrious; glorious.
*(Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)
*:the brightest annals of a female reign
Clear; transparent.
*(James Thomson) (1700-1748)
*:From the brightest wines / He'd turn abhorrent.
(lb) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:with brighter evidence, and with surer success
An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
(obsolete) splendour; brightness
* Milton
(neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
* {{quote-news, date = 2003-06-20
, title = The future looks bright
, first = Richard
, last = Dawkins
, authorlink = Richard Dawkins
, newspaper = (The Guardian)
, issn = 0261-3077
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins
, passage = Brights' constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are ' brights .
}}
* {{quote-book, date = 2006-02-02
, title = Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
, first = Daniel C.
, last = Dennett
, authorlink = Daniel C. Dennett
, location = New York
, publisher = Viking
, isbn = 9780670034727
, ol = 3421576M
, page = 27
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC&pg=PA27&dq=brights
, passage = Many of us brights' have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many ' brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory.
}}
* {{quote-book, date = 2008-03-17
, title = The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness
, first = David
, last = Aikman
, location = Carol Stream
, publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
, isbn = 9781414317083
, ol = 24967138M
, page = 28
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=zn6XkS-4BJcC&pg=PA28&dq=brights
, passage = Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights , the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly.
}}
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As a noun beam
is any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.As a verb beam
is (ambitransitive) to emit beams of light; shine; radiate.As a proper noun bright is
.beam
English
Noun
(en noun)- This ship has more beam than that one.
- The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
- a beam of light
- a beam of energy
- How far that little candle throws his beams !
citation, page= , passage=A total of 15,000 beams of neutrinos were fired over a period of 3 years from CERN towards Gran Sassoin Italy, 730km (500 miles) away, where they were picked up by giant detectors. }}
- a beam of hope, or of comfort
- Mercy with her genial beam .
Synonyms
* (nautical) breadth * (heavy iron lever) working beam, walking beam * (sense, hawk's feather) beam feather * see alsoHyponyms
* (textiles) fore beam, back beamDerived terms
(Derived terms) * abeam * balance beam * beam reach * beam splitter * beam-ends * beamer * beamish * beamline * beamy * bond beam * crossbeam * moonbeam * sunbeam * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * chemical beam epitaxy * high-beam * laser beam * molecular beam epitaxy * particle beam * tractor beamVerb
(en verb)- to beam forth light
- Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.
Anagrams
* ----bright
English
Adjective
(er)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* * brighten * bright-eyed * bright-eyed and bushy-tailed * brightness * bright side * bright young thing * brightwork * eyebrightSee also
* (Brights movement)Noun
(en noun)- Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.