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beam 2, verb (oh) and apposition(1) (iou)


beam 2, verb (oh)



2 v
[I] to smile very happily
::Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly.
beam with
::Connie beamed with pleasure.
beam at
::McLeish beamed at her.
[T always + adverb/preposition] to send a Radio or Television signal through the air, especially to somewhere very distant
::the first Sports broadcast to be beamed across the Atlantic
[I and T] to send out a line of light, heat, energy etc
::The sun beamed through the clouds.
::X-rays are beamed through the patient's body.

apposition(1) (iou)



apposition noun1. LME.
[French, or late Latin appositio(n-), from apposit- pa. ppl stem of apponere: see APPOSITE, -ION.]
The action of putting or applying one thing to another; application. arch. LME.
J. Ayliffe By the Apposition of a Publick Seal.
Grammar. The placing of a term in syntactic parallelism with another; esp. the declarative or distinguishing addition of one noun to another without explicit coordination; the position of the term added. LME.
L. Bloomfield In English we have also close apposition without a pause-pitch, as in King John, John Brown, John the Baptist, Mr. Brown, Mount Everest. B. Rubens 'My son, a linguist'the apposition was a habit with her.
gen. The placing of things side by side or in close proximity; the fact or condition of juxtaposition or parallelism. E17.
W. S. Landor He places strange and discordant ideas in close apposition. C. Lyell These layers must have accumulated one on the Other by lateral apposition.
appositional adjective & noun (a) adjective of, pertaining to, or standing in apposition; (b) noun a term standing in apposition: L17.
appositionally adverb in apposition L19.