Beaming

Definitions: Beaming

Beaming

Adjective

1. Cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning".

2. Pleased and proud; "beaming parents".

3. Radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset".

Date "beaming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	Crosslinking by means of high-energy electrons. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	The process whereby the yarn, after being taken from the spinning and then spooled, is placed in a warper creel and warped onto the warper. Source: European Union. (references)
	The primary operation of warp-making in which ends withdrawn from a warping creel, evenly spaced in sheet form, are wound onto a beam to substantial length(usually a multiple of loom warp length). Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Beaming

Synonyms: beamy (adj), effulgent (adj), glad (adj), radiant (adj), refulgent (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beauty	Brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beaming

English words defined with "beaming": beam, Beamily, Beamingly, beamy ♦ effulgent, Emicant ♦ glad, glow ♦ radiant, radiate, refulgent ♦ shine, Splendent. (references)

Specialty definitions using "beaming": BEAMING INSPECTOR, beaming off ♦ FUR DRESSER, FUR PLUCKER. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I was beaming, truly, like someone's mum. (Velvet Goldmine; writing credit: James Lyons; Todd Haynes)
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Domain	Title
Books	Adaptive Beaming and Imaging in the Turbulent Atmosphere (SPIE PRESS Monograph Vol. PM109) (reference) Adventures in Violinland Bk. 3: Beaming Up (to 3rd Position) (reference) Amazon Beaming (reference) Animal homing and migration through biogeomagnetic beaming : a revealing study into animal orientation phenomena as induced lateral directional equilibrium reflex (reference) Beaming Sonny Home (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	I am sorry he said, beaming shamelessly, the will is found.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Charles Dickens	With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	He ate it with beaming looks, that became gradually more gloomy, and were very blank indeed by the time he had finished.
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Luxembourg	The plan was to send satellites into space capable of beaming TV and radio signals back to earth, and then to rent their capacities to broadcasters. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Beaming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 82.49% of the time. "Beaming" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	82.49%	146	26,107
Adjective (general or positive)	11.86%	21	76,261
Noun (proper)	5.08%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	0.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	177	N/A

Expressions using "beaming": beaming off ♦ beaming with joy. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "beaming": ever-beaming, eye-beaming.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "beaming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مشع (beamy, bright, irradiant, radiant, radiating, shining), ‏مشرق (agleam, beamy, bright, brilliant, clear, luminous, radiant, shining, shiny, splendid, vivid), ‏مبتسم بإبتهاج. (various references)

Chinese		以梁�"��'� (Beamed). (various references)

Czech		rozzářený (bright). (various references)

Danish		bomskæring, beaming, opbomning på kædebom. (various references)

Dutch		bomen, bestraling (irradiation, radiation, radiotherapy), scheren (clip, clipping, cut, shave, shear, shearing, sheep clipping, sheep shearing, sheep-shearing, skim, warping), overbomen. (various references)

Finnish		tukitus, tukin teko, säteilyttäminen, liistauksen jälkeinen tukitus. (various references)

French		brillant (beamy), souriant, radieux, réensouplage � l'ourdissage, réensouplage � l'encollage, pliage � l'ourdissage, pliage � l'encollage, ensouplage, épanoui. (various references)

German		Bestrahlung (exposure, illumination, irradiation, radiation treatment, radiotherapy), Bäumen (rear), strahlend (beamy, bright, brightly, brillant, brilliant, brilliantly, gay, glorious, irradiant, irradiantly, jubilant, lustrously, radiant, radiating, radioactive, refulgent, refulgently, resplendent, shining), freudestrahlend (radiant with joy). (various references)

Greek		σταυροζεύξη με ηλεκτρονική δέσμη, τύλιγμα στημονιού σε ρόλους, διάσιμο (warping). (various references)

Hungarian		boldog (beatific, blessed, blissful, felicitate, felicitous, glad, gladsome, happy, palmy, sunny, to be fain to do sg), sugárzó (aerial, aglow, emissive, emitter, irradiant, irradiated, radiant, radiative, sunny, transmitting). (various references)

Indonesian		berseri-seri (alight). (various references)

Italian		splendente (ablaze, bright, shining, spick and span, sunny), che irradia, avvolgimento sul subbio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		晴れやかな笑�" (beaming smile). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はれやかなえがお (beaming smile). (various references)

Korean		빛남 (Brightening, Gleaming, Glittering, Radiance, Raying, shining). (various references)

Manx		soilsheanagh (brilliant, glistening, glowing, lit up, luminous, lustrous, radiant, shiny, splendid, vivid), soilshean (blaze, blaze of sun, glow, illuminant, shine), goulragh (radiate, shining), goulley, goullaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		eamingbay

Portuguese		urdissagem. (various references)

Romanian		radios (radiant, radiantly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zračeći (radiant), sjajan (bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous). (various references)

Spanish		radiante (aglow, bright, radian, radiant, shining, shiny). (various references)

Swedish		bomning, beaming, varpning (warping), strålande (brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, irradiant, luminous, resplendent, superlative, topping), pDbomning, fokusering (focusing). (various references)

Turkish		ışık saçan (effulgent, luminiferous, radiant, shining). (various references)

Ukranian		сяючий (alight, auroral, beamy, coruscating, fulgent, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, splendid), опромінювання (radiation), променистий (effulgent, lambent, radiant, radiate, starlight, starry). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "beaming": outbeaming. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beaming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babamine, Bayamon, beaking, Bealing, beamen, Beamon, Beamond, beaning, beening, besamin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beaming" (pronounced bē"ming)
4	-ē" m i ng	dreaming, gleaming, redeeming, scheming, screaming, seeming, steaming, streaming, teaming, teeming.
3	-m i ng	acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-m-n"
	-1 letter: bagmen, enigma, gamine.
	-2 letters: amine, anime, began, begin, being, binge, gambe, gamin, image, mange, minae.
	-3 letters: agin, amen, amie, amin, bane, bang, bani, beam, bean, bema, bima, bine, gaen, gain, gamb, game, gane, gibe, gien, iamb, mabe, mage, magi, main, mane, mean, mien, mina, mine, nabe, name, nema.
	-4 letters: age, aim, ain, ami, ane, ani, bag, bam, ban, beg, ben, big, bin, eng, gab, gae, gam, gan, gem, gen, gib, gie, gin, mae, mag, man, meg, men, mib, mig, nab, nae, nag, nam, neb, nib, nim.
	-5 letters: ab, ae, ag, ai, am, an, ba, be, bi, em, en, in, ma, me, mi, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-m-n"
	+1 letter: benaming, breaming, embaying, misbegan.
	+2 letters: becalming, bedamning, bemeaning, bemoaning, beshaming, bigeminal, cambering, embalming, embanking, embarking, embarring, emblazing, embracing, flambeing, mangabies.
	+3 letters: abridgment, assembling, becharming, bemadaming, besmearing, beswarming, chambering, clambering, embargoing, embattling, imaginable, impugnable, outbeaming.
	+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, amblygonite, beclamoring, beglamoring, bemaddening, blaspheming, drumbeating, emblazoning, embracingly, embrangling, impregnable, impregnably, marbleising, marbleizing, misbehaving, mislabeling, reembarking, umbrellaing.
	+5 letters: abridgements, amblygonites, bantamweight, beachcombing, beglamouring, benchmarking, boomeranging, descrambling, disembarking, drumbeatings, embarrassing, greenbackism, magnetizable, metabolizing, mislabelling, reassembling, unimaginable.
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