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Beaver vs Beamer - What's the difference?

beaver | beamer |

As nouns the difference between beaver and beamer

is that beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet while beamer is a ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.

As a proper noun Beaver

is {{surname|lang=en}.

beaver

English

(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  • A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
    • a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
  • (coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
  • The fur of the beaver.
  • Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    • Derived terms
    * American beaver * European beaver
    Related terms
    * bank beaver * beaver away * beavered * beaver rat * busy as a beaver * eager beaver
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lower face-guard of a helmet.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
  • *:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  • *1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
  • *:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
  • *:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    (Commons) *

    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 ----