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Beater vs Beamer - What's the difference?

beater | beamer |

As nouns the difference between beater and beamer

is that beater is someone or something that beats or beater can be (us|informal) a sleeveless undershirt while beamer is (colloquial) a bmw car.

beater

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that beats.
  • A kitchen implement for mixing.
  • A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
  • A man who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, often working in a group.
  • A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
  • (US, informal) An automobile in poor operating condition.
  • Derived terms
    * eggbeater * world-beater
    Synonyms
    * (stick for a percussion instrument) drum stick

    Etymology 2

    By shortening from wife beater.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.
  • Anagrams

    * * *

    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 ----