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BEAMING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Radiating or as if radiating light
Example:
a refulgent sunset
Synonyms:
beaming; beamy; effulgent; radiant; refulgent
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cheerful and bright
Example:
a glad May morning
Synonyms:
beaming; glad
Classified under:
Similar:
cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Pleased and proud
Example:
beaming parents
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb beam
Context examples:
Kitamura and his team artificially reactivated memories in mice by using optogenetics, a technique that involves beaming light into their brains to control the activity of individual neurons by switching memories on or off.
(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At those extreme velocities, the gas appears to brighten as it travels toward Earth on one side, and dims as it speeds away from our planet on the other side (an effect called relativistic beaming).
(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)
Joe's face was beaming.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She opened with hospitable haste, and started as if another ghost had come to surprise her, for there stood a tall bearded gentleman, beaming on her from the darkness like a midnight sun.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mrs. Traddles, with perfect pleasure and composure beaming from her household eyes, having made the tea, then quietly made the toast as she sat in a corner by the fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate column; his face turned to me: his eye beaming watchful and keen.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One was old, with silver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry, yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The other reason this new moon is exceptional is that Jupiter, in your commitment/marriage sector, will be beaming greetings to Neptune in your travel sector, and these two planets will set up direct communication, creating quite an endearing experience.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Here he held Martin off at arm's length and ran his beaming eyes over Martin's second-best suit, which was also his worst suit, and which was ragged and past repair, though the trousers showed the careful crease he had put in with Maria's flat-irons.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Bless her heart! She pities him, so she is good to him," said Jo, beaming at her from the croquet ground.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
