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beamer

noun
/ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/UK/ˈbimɚ/US/ˈbiːmə/UK

Etymology

From beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix).

  1. inherited from bēamian
  2. inherited from bemen
  3. derived from *bʰew-✻ — “to grow, swell”
  4. inherited from *baumaz✻ — “tree, beam, balk”
  5. inherited from *baum✻
  6. inherited from bēam — “tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”
  7. inherited from beem
  8. suffixed as beamer — “beam + er”

Definitions

  1. A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.

  2. A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the…

    A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.

  3. A projector.

    • The plan can be projected on to a white board, […] or by using a beamer (data projector).
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A device that projects or transmits matter, information, or energy.

      • For several days he went about his charge with disgust, trying everything he could to avoid the stench of rotting vegetation and of human feces, which was overpowering even as it all burned under the plasma from his beamer.

    2. A big smile.

      • Get your pre-smile working, move toward him, shake hands, glue eyes […] and then launch your beamer, a big, toothy (uppers and lowers showing) grin.

    3. Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”).

    4. A BMW car or motorcycle.

      • Some people might like to get a train to work / Or drive in, in a Beamer or a Merc
      • Could've got the Beamer. I ain't really want it.[…]Man, I should've got the Lex. Dropped the top on em, I ain't wanna flex. Would've hit your girl, I ain't want the sex.

    5. An employee of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

      • If those Beamers werent such assholes then Microsoft would've continued the partnership.
      • Okay a few days have passed and the Beamers had chance to answer.
      • Thanks to IBM's departure, housing can't sell for the high numbers that only the Beamers could afford... not the majority.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beamer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA