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biscotti
English
Alternative forms
- biscotto
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian biscotti, plural of biscotto (“cookie, biscuit”); doublet of biscuit.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??sk?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??sk?ti/
- Rhymes: -?ti
Noun
biscotti (plural biscotti or biscottis)
- A hard, usually nut-flavored biscuit, derived from the Tuscan cantuccio.
Italian
Noun
biscotti m
- plural of biscotto
Verb
biscotti
- second-person singular present indicative of biscottare
- first-person singular present subjunctive of biscottare
- second-person singular present subjunctive of biscottare
- third-person singular present subjunctive of biscottare
- third-person singular imperative of biscottare
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beam
English
Etymology
From Middle English beem, from Old English b?am (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.
The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English b?amian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?m, IPA(key): /bi?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
beam (plural beams)
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- And a letter vnto Asaph the keeper of the kings forrest, that he may giue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the Citie, and for the house that I shall enter into: And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God vpon me.
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of timber or concrete, 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.
- 1905, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
- Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill?—a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams—just like any other farm kitchen.
- 1905, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
- (nautical) 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)
- Synonym: breadth
- 1892, Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot, The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century Chapter 7
- Being only 280 ft. long, with a beam of 66 ft, their speed is moderate, and for a long time difficulty was experienced in steering them.
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- (textiles) 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.
- Synonyms: working beam, walking beam
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- a beam of light
- a beam of energy
- (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
- a beam of hope, or of comfort
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- Synonym: beam feather
- (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
Hyponyms
- (textiles): fore beam, back beam
See also
- Thesaurus:stick
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
beam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
- to beam forth light
- (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams
- (transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
- (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.
- The injured crewmembers were immediately beamed to sickbay.
- (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
- (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam
- (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
Translations
Anagrams
- BAME, Bame, Mabe, ambe, bema, mabe
German
Verb
beam
- singular imperative of beamen
Old English
Alternative forms
- beom
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *baum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæ???m/
Noun
b?am m (nominative plural b?amas)
- tree
- Synonyms: tr?ow, wudu
- beam of wood
- Synonym: bord
- gallows, gibbet (hanging device with a crossbeam)
- Synonym: ?ealga
- (by extension) the Cross
- Codex Vercillensis
- Codex Vercillensis
Declension
Derived terms
- si?eb?am
Descendants
- Middle English: beem
- Scots: beme
- English: beam
- ? German: beamen
- ? Japanese: ???
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [be?am]
Verb
beam
- first-person singular imperfect indicative of bea
- first-person plural imperfect indicative of bea
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???m/
Noun
beam c (plural beammen, diminutive beamke)
- tree
Derived terms
- hefbeam
Further reading
- “beam”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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