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Definition: Beam Of Light |
Beam Of LightNoun1. A column of light (as from a beacon). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Beam Of LightSynonyms: beam (n), light beam (n), ray (n), ray of light (n), shaft (n), shaft of light (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch. (K-PAX; writing credit: Charles Leavitt) | |
Lyrics | A beam of light will fill your head ("Melancholy Man"; performing artist: The Moody Blues) | |
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Seen is a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy for use in an operating room. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". The patient has been given a photo sensitive drug containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy.Credit: John Crawford (photographer). | Shown is close up of surgeons' hands in an operating room with a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". A patient would be given a photo sensitive drug (photofrin) containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy (PDT).Credit: John Crawford (photographer). | ||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The beam of light was closer now, and it bounced into the sky and then disappeared, and then bounced up again. |
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Health | The treatment involves aiming a high energy beam of light directly onto the leaking blood vessels. (references) | |
During the surgery, your doctor will aim a high-energy beam of light directly onto the damaged blood vessels. (references) | ||
A small, powerful beam of light destroys the fragile, abnormal blood vessels, as well as a small amount of the overlying retinal tissue. (references) | ||
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| Language | Translations for "beam of light"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | lichtstrahl (ray of light, ray of sunshine). (various references) | ||||
Greek | ακτίνα του φωτός. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 光' . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | "うぼう (offense and defense, promising future, rise and fall, studio, ups and downs, workshop). (various references) | ||||
Manx | skag (beam). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eambay ofay ightlay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | radius. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | rayon. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-g-h-i-l-m-o-t" | |
-3 letters: halftime, lifeboat, megalith, obligate. | |
-4 letters: bimetal, bohemia, filemot, flotage, foliage, foliate, globate, hemiola, limbate, megabit, megahit, thimble, timbale. | |
-5 letters: aiglet, albeit, albite, alight, beflag, behalf, blight, blithe, boatel, boleti, emboli, eolith, fathom, fetial, fimble, flambe, flight, foetal, foible, folate, fomite, galiot, gambit, gamble, gambol, gelati, gelato, giblet, gimbal, gimlet, glioma, goalie, goblet, habile, halite, hamlet, hiemal, hoagie, hogtie, homage, lambie, latigo, legato, ligate, loathe, lobate, maloti, milage, mobile, motile, obelia, oblate, oblige, ohmage, timbal, tombal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 61 6D      4F 66      4C 69 67 68 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01101101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a m   O f   L i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 006D      004F 0066      004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367167792497224675737486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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