beamer
See also: Beamer
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
beamer (plural beamers)
- (gymnastics, slang) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
Etymology 2 edit
beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix)
Noun edit
beamer (plural beamers)
- (cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.
- (chiefly non-native speakers' English) A projector.
- (science fiction) 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.
- (informal) 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.
Usage notes edit
- (projector): The term is sometimes used in English by non-native speakers after German Beamer and Dutch beamer, which are pseudo-anglicisms.
See also edit
- (baseball): beaner
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
beamer (plural beamers)
- Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology 1 edit
From beamen (“to assent”) + -er (agentive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)
- A consenter, who assents to a statement
Etymology 2 edit
A pseudo-anglicism. Compare German Beamer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)