Beam vs Member - 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
* (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.
One who officially belongs to a group.
A part of a whole.
* 1979 , Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia",
Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
* Bible, Rom. xii. 4
The penis.
(logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
(set theory) An element of a set.
(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
(AU, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
(math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
(obsolete) To remember.
(obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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As nouns the difference between beam and member
is that beam is any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use while member is member (person).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
* ----member
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) membre, from (etyl) membre, from (etyl) . Coexists with native (etyl) lim, ).Alternative forms
* membre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper , Volume 1110
- The member' intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone ' member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age
- We have many members' in one body, and all ' members have not the same office.