capsizing ship; see usage note at <span class="searchmatch">beam</span>-<span class="searchmatch">ends</span>. <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> <span class="searchmatch">ends</span> (UK, dated) In a parlous or destitute state. “be <span class="searchmatch">on</span> your <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> <span class="searchmatch">ends</span>”, in Cambridge English Dictionary...
<span class="searchmatch">beam</span>-<span class="searchmatch">ends</span> pl (plural only) (nautical) The <span class="searchmatch">ends</span> of the transverse <span class="searchmatch">beams</span> of a ship. 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before...
beam <span class="searchmatch">on</span>-<span class="searchmatch">beam</span> onbeam <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> <span class="searchmatch">ends</span> outbeam particle <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> photobeam pilot <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> ploughbeam presser <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> pressor <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> repulsor <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> ridge <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> rocking...
which <span class="searchmatch">end</span> is up not the <span class="searchmatch">end</span> of the world odds and <span class="searchmatch">ends</span> off the deep <span class="searchmatch">end</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">end</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> <span class="searchmatch">ends</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> the receiving <span class="searchmatch">end</span> open-<span class="searchmatch">end</span> fund other <span class="searchmatch">end</span> other <span class="searchmatch">end</span> of...
joined with an adjustable hinge at <span class="searchmatch">one</span> <span class="searchmatch">end</span>; until the middle ages both arms always had metal points at their free <span class="searchmatch">ends</span> (this version is now called a divider...
Syllabification(key): u‧lo‧ke‧palk‧ki Hyphenation(key): uloke‧palkki ulokepalkki (architecture) cantilever (<span class="searchmatch">beam</span> anchored at <span class="searchmatch">one</span> <span class="searchmatch">end</span> and projecting into space)...
mensola m (plural ponti a mensola) cantilever bridge (architecture) a <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> anchored at <span class="searchmatch">one</span> <span class="searchmatch">end</span> and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from...
consisting of a large pivoted <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> (the regulator) with an arm at each <span class="searchmatch">end</span> (the indicators) which pivoted around the regulator <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one</span> extremity. Coordinate term:...
camera having at <span class="searchmatch">one</span> <span class="searchmatch">end</span> a small convex mirror reflecting a <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other <span class="searchmatch">end</span>. The mirror is pivoted...
from <span class="searchmatch">one</span> <span class="searchmatch">end</span> to the other. 1951 July, W. R. Watson, “An Edge Hill <span class="searchmatch">Beam</span> Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 490: The <span class="searchmatch">beam</span> is used to drive two pumps, <span class="searchmatch">one</span> supplying...