beamer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/Category:English 2-syllable words#BEAMERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BEAMER
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbimɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#BEAMERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BEAMER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#BEAMERAudio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/iːmə(ɹ)#BEAMERCategory:Rhymes:English/iːmə(ɹ)/2 syllables#BEAMER
Etymology 1
From beam (“balance beam”) + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)#BEAMER.
Noun
beamer (plural beamers)Category:English lemmas#BEAMERCategory:English nouns#BEAMERCategory:English countable nouns#BEAMERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEAMERCategory:Pages with entries#BEAMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEAMER
- (gymnasticsCategory:en:Gymnastics#BEAMER, slangCategory:English slang#BEAMER) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
Etymology 2
From beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix)Category:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#BEAMER, or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix)Category:English terms suffixed with -er (patient)#BEAMER.
Noun
beamer (plural beamers)Category:English lemmas#BEAMERCategory:English nouns#BEAMERCategory:English countable nouns#BEAMERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEAMERCategory:Pages with entries#BEAMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEAMER
- (cricketCategory:en:Cricket#BEAMER) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.
- (chiefly non-native speakers' EnglishCategory:Non-native speakers' English#BEAMER) A projector.
- 2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects, →ISBN, page 210:
- The plan can be projected on to a white board, […] or by using a beamer (data projector).Category:English terms with quotations#BEAMER
- (science fictionCategory:en:Science fiction#BEAMER) A device that projects or transmits matter, information, or energy.
- 2013, Paul Alcorn, The Rhoedraegon Chronicles: Book Two:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BEAMER
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#BEAMER) A big smile.
- 2005, Judsen Culbreth, The Boomer's Guide to Online Dating, page 162:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BEAMER
Usage notes
- (projector): The term is sometimes used in English by non-native speakers after German Beamer and Dutch beamer, which are pseudo-anglicisms.
See also
- (baseball): beaner
Etymology 3
Clipping of BMWCategory:English clippings#BEAMER + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (Oxford)#BEAMER.
Noun
beamer (plural beamers)Category:English lemmas#BEAMERCategory:English nouns#BEAMERCategory:English countable nouns#BEAMERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEAMERCategory:Pages with entries#BEAMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEAMER
- Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”).
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology 1
From beamen (“to assent”) + -er (agentive suffix)Category:Dutch terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#BEAMER.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈaːmər/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#BEAMER
- Hyphenation: be‧amer
- Rhymes: -aːmərCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/aːmər#BEAMER
Noun
beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#BEAMERCategory:Dutch nouns#BEAMERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#BEAMERCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BEAMERCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#BEAMERCategory:Pages with entries#BEAMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEAMER
- a consenter, who assents to a statement
Etymology 2
A pseudo-anglicismCategory:Dutch pseudo-loans from English#BEAMERCategory:Dutch terms derived from English#BEAMER. Compare German Beamer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbiː.mər/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#BEAMER
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#BEAMERAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: bea‧mer
Noun
beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#BEAMERCategory:Dutch nouns#BEAMERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#BEAMERCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BEAMERCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#BEAMERCategory:Pages with entries#BEAMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEAMER