A signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather.

synonym: radio beam.

Roget 236: laterality^†; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole^†, wing; profile; temple, parietes [Lat.], loin, haunch, hip; beam.    gable, gable end; broadside; lee side.    points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation.    ... show more

Roget 319: gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness etc. adj.; specific gravity; pondorosity^†, pressure, load; burden, burthen^†; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.    lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.    weighing, ponderation^†, trutination^†; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma^†, ounce, pound, lb, arroba^†, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod^†.    [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram; nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.    [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge^†; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.    [Science of gravity] statics.    ... show more

Long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction.

Dutch: balk, bint
Polish: dyl, belka, bal

A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.

synonyms: electron beam, ray.

Polish: promień

A column of light (as from a beacon).

synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light.

Roget 215: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib^†; point d'appui [Fr.], pou sto [Gr.], purchase footing, hold, locus standi [Lat.]; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor etc. (basement) 211.    supporter; aid etc. 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment^†; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit^†, outrigger; ratlings^†.    staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle^†; bourdon^†, cowlstaff^†, lathi^†, mahlstick^†.    post, pillar, shaft, thill^†, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle^†, zocle^†; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.    frame, framework; scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel, joist, travis^†, trave^†, corner stone, summer, transom; rung, round, step, sill; angle rafter, hip rafter; cantilever, modillion^†; crown post, king post; vertebra.    columella^†, backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch, mainstay.    trunnion, pivot, rowlock^†; peg etc. (pendency) 214^†; tiebeam etc. (fastening) 45; thole pin^†.    board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet^†, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece [Fr.], mantleshelf^†; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy^†.    seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud^†; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil [Fr.], woolsack^†, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo^†, faldstool^†, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki^†, lamba kursi^†; saddle, pannel^†, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.    bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed^†, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang^†; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse^†; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.    footstool, hassock; tabouret^†; tripod, monopod.    Atlas, Persides, Atlantes^†, Caryatides, Hercules.    ... show more

Roget 420: light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.    day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight etc. (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun.    glow etc. v.; glimmering etc. v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.    flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.    spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling etc. v.; emication^†, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration^†; flame etc. (fire) 382; lightning, levin^†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], etc. (luminary) 423.    luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor^†, fulgidity^†; dazzlement^†, resplendence, transplendency^†; luminousness etc. adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency^†, nitency^†; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination.    actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography; photometer etc. 445.    [Science of light] optics; photology^†, photometry; dioptrics^†, catoptrics^†.    [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur^†, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.    reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.    ... show more

Dutch: stralenbundel

nautical Breadth amidships.

The broad side of a ship.

Dutch: straal, bundel, biels, dissel

A gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts.

synonym: balance beam.

Dutch: evenwichtsbalk
Polish: równoważnia, balans, balansjer

Smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression.

Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light:
— The fire beamed on their faces.

synonym: shine.

Roget 845: be beautiful etc. adj.; shine, beam, bloom; become one etc. (accord) 23; set off, grace.    render beautiful etc. adj.; beautify; polish, burnish; gild etc. (decorate) 847; set out.    snatch a grace beyond the reach of art" [Pope]. ... show more

Dutch: schijnen, stralen

Express with a beaming face or smile.

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.

synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit.

Dutch: uitzenden

Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.

synonyms: glow, radiate, shine.

Roget 420: shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright etc. adj.; reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate.    clear up, brighten.    lighten, enlighten; levin^†; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume^†, illumine, illuminate; relume^†, strike a light; kindle etc. (set fire to) 384.    ... show more

Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion:
— She was beaming with joy.

synonyms: glow, radiate, shine.

Dutch: afstralen, glimmen, glunderen, stralen