Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "beam" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

barn bridge building building to support ceiling construction site gym house large building metal shop new construction roof warehouse

Capable Of

ray of light

Created By

cutting wood

Derived Terms

Airy beam Beam Bridge Bessel beam Gaussian beam abeam airbeam balance beam beam and scales beam compass beam engine beam hole beam reach beam sea beam splitter beam steering beam tracing beam tree beam-ends beam-on beam-steering beamable beamage beambird beambreak beamer beamform beamformed beamformer beamforming beamful beamish beamless beamlet beamlike beamline beampattern beampipe beamshelf beamsome beamspace beamster beamstop beamstrahlung beamtime beamtrain beamwalk beamwalking beamwidth beamy beta-beam bond beam breastbeam broad across the beam broad in the beam buffer beam bufferbeam camber beam carbeam chemical beam epitaxy collar beam counter beam country beam crossbeam daybeam dragon beam e-beam electron beam embeam equalising beam exposed beam eyebeam fender beam fish beam forebeam fork beam full-beam glee-beam hammer beam hardbeam high-beam hornbeam hyperbeam interbeam kick the beam ladder beam laser beam low-beam microbeam minibeam molecular beam epitaxy moonbeam multibeam nanobeam needle beam off the beam off-beam offbeam on one's beam ends on-beam onbeam outbeam particle beam photobeam pilot beam ploughbeam presser beam pressor beam repulsor beam ridge beam rocking beam rood beam roofbeam sandwich beam scalebeam sealed beam section beam sharebeam shoe beam shoebeam slaught-beam spot beam spring beam starbeam straining beam summerbeam sunbeam superbeam tail-beam tie beam tiebeam tightbeam tiller-beam tractor beam traffic beam truck beam turning-beam waybeam weighbeam whitebeam yarn-beam

Context

currying literary music nautical railway science fiction ship textiles weaving

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

air appear bare breadth electromagnetic radiation electromagnetic wave emit evince exerciser experience express feel give off give out gymnastic apparatus light look nonparticulate radiation piece publicise publicize seem show side sign signal signaling signalling smile structural member visible light visible radiation width

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

H-beam I-beam T-beam back beam fore beam

Type Of (IsA)

architectural structure electromagnetic radiation light piece side structural member structural support support structure thick rod three dimensional rectangle width wooden ceiling support

Manner Of

express smile

Part Of

gymnastics

Receives Action

used in construction

Related Terms

stick

Related Terms

anchor antler balance balance rod broadly building building construction carriage cheerfully collection colter construction crank crossbar cylinder deck emit equipment feather fiction flashlight flashlight light gleam guns gymnast gymnast equipment handle hawk high high lights horizontal information iron joist knee laser lever light light ray lights long long wood loom matter member metal metal rod metric note oscillating piece piston plow pole radiate ray rod science science fiction shaft shank shine ship smile steam engine steel stem straight straight light stringer structural structural member structure sun sun ray support supported timber torches transmit transverse vessel warp weave wood wooden wooden joist wooden structure

Synonym Network

air balance beam baulk beam feather breadth give glow radio beam shine smile transmit working beam

Used For

build house build structure building buildings building skyscrapers constructing buildings hold joining two structures horizontally lighting scene magnify light scan shine shining light on structural support support support floor support floor or roof support roof support wall supporting roof used in gymnastics

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.