beamer
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See also: Beamer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbimɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From beam (“balance beam”) + -er.
Noun
beamer (plural beamers)
- (gymnastics, slang) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
Etymology 2
From beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix).
Noun
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.
- 2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects, →ISBN, page 210:
- The plan can be projected on to a white board, […] or by using a beamer (data 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
- (projector): The term is sometimes used in English by non-native speakers after German Beamer and Dutch beamer, which are pseudo-anglicisms.
See also
- (baseball): beaner
Etymology 3
Noun
beamer (plural beamers)
- Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”)
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology 1
From beamen (“to assent”) + -er (agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)
- a consenter, who assents to a statement
Etymology 2
A pseudo-anglicism. Compare German Beamer.
Pronunciation
Noun
beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)