Beams

What do we mean by beams?

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.

The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam)

The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.

The principal stem of the antler of a deer.

The pole of a carriage or chariot.

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.

The straight part or shank of an anchor.

The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.

A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.

A ray; a gleam.

One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.

A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.

An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.

Words that are spelled similarly to beams:
beams, beam, beans, bears, beads, beats, seams, reams, beamy, teams, beas, bams, beaks, deams, berms, beaus, breams, beals, eams, keams, leams, beama, beames, bems, brams.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word beams:
rafters, beam, planks, protons, accelerator, ceiling, fireplace, truss, laser, bending, slab, roofs, proton, pillars, columns, wavelength, plaster, neutron, roof, ions, particle, concrete, piers, electrons, optical, angles, arches, electron, mirrors, reinforced, tiles, horizontal, carved, atoms, deck, walls, plates, radiation, posts, panels, interference, particles, wooden, steel, timber, intensity, vertical, structural, rays, exterior, ion, floor, plasma, span, curved, decorated, decorative, brick, directions, light, holes, width, angle, magnetic, layers, frame, wood, doors, plate, eyes, reflected, exposed, thick, visible, mirror, interior, load, painted, supporting, frequency, windows, linear, structure, energy, iron, oak, bridge, lights, target, installed, attached, crystal, wall, radar, pattern, bridges, sample.

Words that rhyme with beams:
memes, dreams, seems, themes, seams, reams, schemes, eames, reims, hiems, streams, demes, deems, extremes, weems, teams, regimes, rheims, teems, supremes, creams, jeames, daydreams, screams, racemes, gleams, biremes, nemes, triremes, redeems, breams, siems, steams, moonbeams, reames, jetstreams, joachims.

Adjectives that are often used to describe beams:
wooden, concrete, continuous, heavy, light, high, laser, diffracted, horizontal, cross, bright, main, ray, rectangular, narrow, intense, simple, molecular, sun, polarized, parallel, composite, prestressed, massive, golden, deep, multiple, longitudinal, strong, curved, secondary, huge, gaussian, tie, exposed, laminated, structural, solid, red, coherent, vertical, reinforced, hewn, atomic, separate, thick, iron, dark, wide, precast, collimated, optical, broad, straight, overhead, powerful, charred, carved, thin, shaped, rolled, scattered, indeterminate, pale, pulsed, neutral, adjacent, solar, radiant, yellow, infrared, deck, inch, faint, warm, monochromatic, floor.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective beams:
play, rest, dart, brood, measurements, glitter, project, experiment, technique, experiments, blood, pall, sail, overhead, apparatus, side, fig, share, method, glint, smile, cut, grillage, sink.

Consonant match to beams:
bombs, bums, booms, berms, balms.

Words that sound like beams:
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