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Beamer vs Bearer - What's the difference?

beamer | bearer |

As nouns the difference between beamer and bearer

is that beamer is (colloquial) a bmw car while bearer is one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

beamer

English

(wikipedia beamer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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, page 52:
    • Furthermore, the teacher’s computer should be equipped with an LCD-panel with overhead projector or beamer .
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects citation
    • , 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, 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.
  • (slang) A BMW.

    • Synonyms

    * (BMW) beemer, bimmer, BMW ----

    bearer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
  • * Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
    • Bearers of burdens.
  • * Dryden
    • The bearer of unhappy news.
  • Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
    • (Milton)
  • One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
    • I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
  • (India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 60:
    • The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
  • A tree or plant yielding fruit.
    • a good bearer
  • (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
  • (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

    • Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----