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beam

noun

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

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The word "beam" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word to refer to a ray of light, a horizontal beam of a structure, or a facial expression, among other things. For example, "The sunbeams shone through the window, making the room warm and inviting."

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Laser physicists have built a reversible tractor beam and are using it to retrieve tiny particles.

It has nowhere near the pulling power of tractor beams envisaged in science fiction, but the first long-distance optical tractor beam has so far moved particles one fifth of a millimetre in diameter a distance of up to 20cm.

He wore the Smile as he said all this and I was able to beam back happily.

"There are some tumours that require radiotherapy to the whole brain and whole spinal cord," said Dr Yen-Ching Chang, a specialist in paediatric radiotherapy and lead on proton beam therapy at University College London hospitals, which will have one of the UK's two machines from 2018.

They put their case for proton beam therapy in a YouTube video that won them widespread support.

When you say, 'Action', he's like a laser beam.

Paediatric intensive care consultant Dr Peter Wilson said the family put him and his colleagues in a difficult position, as Ashya had not been deemed suitable for proton beam therapy.

Kevin's concentration is like a laser beam.

At the time, Ashya could not swallow and had to be fed through his nose, but the couple announced last month that he has now made a "miracle" recovery after receiving proton beam therapy in Prague.

But seriously, if Bob Dylan is the litmus test, then I can tell you exactly what the result will be even if I've never seen the show: after what he sat through, if Wikingsson doesn't beam from ear to ear with pure joy for at least six months, then there's something seriously wrong with him.

The players beam when they speak of the joy Darren Lehmann has brought back to the dressing room, but then this team also stared down, lipped off and mercilessly piled on top of England until they couldn't get up.

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