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Grinning vs Beamed - What's the difference?

grinning | beamed |

As verbs the difference between grinning and beamed

is that grinning is while beamed is (beam).

As a noun grinning

is the act or expression of one who grins.

As an adjective beamed is

furnished with beams or timbers.

grinning

English

Verb

(head)
    • I’m grinning because someone told me a joke.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or expression of one who grins.
  • * (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
    • The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.

    beamed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (beam)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Furnished with beams or timbers.
    • a beamed ceiling
  • Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky.