Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cloth-manuf., the operation of winding the warp-yarn on the beam of a loom.
- noun In leather-making, the operation of working hides with a slicker over a beam, or with a beaming-machine.
- Characterized by radiance; bright; cheerful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Emitting beams; radiant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Smilingly happy ; showing happy emotion. - verb Present participle of
beam .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pleased and proud
- adjective cheerful and bright
- adjective radiating or as if radiating light
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Examples
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She was exchanging private glances with Joel and beaming from the audience like a proud mother (and looking a lot like Mrs. Miller from “Almost Famous”) every time the brothers were onstage.
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The gallant steed bounded forward – the golden light was beaming from the sky – and we paused to watch his progress.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845
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“An officer, no less,” his mother said in German, beaming with pride.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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“An officer, no less,” his mother said in German, beaming with pride.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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The reporters on all of them were all just beaming, which is not something they normally do here.
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The only line I can draw between the two is the idea of beaming consciousness and control into a separate being to inhabit an otherwise uninhabitable planet.
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I am wondering if a world crime tribunal sends him to the gallows, will this brave heart face the noose barefaced with the Bible in hand and with TV cameras catching his every expression beaming it live into many homes – I am sure some may definitely quip, what a beautiful sight that would be!
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I think that, dangerous as the written word like that is, the beaming of Israel-hatred into British living rooms is arguably worse, given the ubiquity of television (as distinct from publications like the LRB) in British homes.
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Hence, the idea of beaming down two teams at different points in the palace.
Legacy Michael Jan Friedman 1990
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But it has left behind it a token; a clear, bright impress; a smile of undissembled love and purity; an expression beaming with the last unutterable peace; the graces which were so winning upon earth, but which shall attain their perfection in heaven.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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