Beamer vs Beames - What's the difference?
beamer | beames |
(cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.
(informal, jargon, chiefly, Europe) A device that can project an image through a lens onto a screen with light from a DVD player, television or video recorder.
* 1998 , Wilhelm Grießhaber, “Multimedia in Computer-Assisted Language Learning”, in Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe , Routledge, ISBN 0415172845,
* {{quote-book, 2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects
, passage=The plan can be projected on to a white board,
* 2005 , S. Borkowski et al., “Spatial Control of Interactive Surfaces”, in Engineering Human Computer Interaction And Interactive Systems , Springer, ISBN 3540260978,
(slang) A BMW.
* {{quote-book, year=1624, author=, title=Old English Plays, Vol. I, chapter=The Tragedy of Nero, edition=
, passage=O could I live to see the generall end, / Behold the world enwrapt in funerall flame, / When as the Sunne'' shall lend his beames to burne What he before brought forth,
As nouns the difference between beamer and beames
is that beamer is a ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height while beames is an archaic spelling of nodot=yes lang=en, plural of nocap=yes lang=en.beamer
English
(wikipedia beamer)Noun
(en noun)page 52:
- Furthermore, the teacher’s computer should be equipped with an LCD-panel with overhead projector or beamer .
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page 234:
- The orientation of a surface with respect to the beamer is used to calculate a pre-warp that is applied to the projected image.
Synonyms
* (BMW) beemer, bimmer, BMW ----beames
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