Beam vs Header - What's the difference?
beam | header |
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.
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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 upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling]] or [[summarize, summarizing it.
Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher
a horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening
a machine that cuts the heads off of grain etc
(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with the head
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a headlong fall or jump
(computing) the first part of a file or record that describes its contents
(networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors
A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system
A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
As nouns the difference between beam and header
is that beam is any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use while header is the upper portion of a page (or other) layout.As a verb beam
is (ambitransitive) to emit beams of light; shine; radiate.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
* ----header
English
Noun
(en noun)- If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
- Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.
- That column should have the header "payment status".
- Parts of speech belong in a level-three header . Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
- This wall has four header courses.
- They fed the bale into the header .
- His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
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- ''The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header .
- The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
- The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
- Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers .