Beam vs Channel - 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
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(figuratively) A ray; a gleam
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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.
The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
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The navigable part of a river.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
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A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
(nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
(electronics) A connection between initiating]] and [[terminate, terminating nodes of a circuit.
(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
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(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
(business, marketing) A distribution channel
(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
To direct the flow of something.
To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.
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 channel is
(by ellipsis) the english channel.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 !
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- 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
* ----channel
English
(wikipedia channel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) chenel (French: '', ''chenal ), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- ''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel .
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- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel .
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels .
- The veins are converging channels .
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- A channel stretches between them.
- We are using one of the 24 channels .
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns),
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel .
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
Synonyms
* (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait * (for television) side , station (US)Derived terms
* channel-hopping * change the channel * ion channel * television channelVerb
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.