Beaner vs Beamer - What's the difference?
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(US, racial slur, offensive) A Mexican.
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, passage=Hey bro I'm a beaner , we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?}}
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, passage=I'm a beaner , and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!}}
(baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
(by extension, informal) Head.
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(US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
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* {{quote-book, title=The Sunset Tree, author=Martha Ostenso, pages=106, date=1949, publisher=Dodd, Mead
, passage=Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner ! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart}}
(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.
As nouns the difference between beaner and beamer
is that beaner is a Mexican while beamer is a ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.beaner
English
Etymology 1
From . Literally "a person who eats refried beans".Noun
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References
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- Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner , Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”
Usage notes
This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.References
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(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.