See Also: Chlamydophrys(medicine)
beam-beam reaction(medicine)
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beam splitter(medicine)
beam dump(medicine)

beam 2, verb (oh) and Chlamydophrys (medicine)


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.

Chlamydophrys (medicine)


Chlamydophrys


A genus of shelled amoebas, commonly found as faecal protozoans.

Origin: G. Chlamys, cloak, + ophrys, brow