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Example sentences for: beam

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A laser beam is directed to scan over a predetermined area and thousands of individual measurements of perfusion are made.
Thus, kick the bucket is listed in the category E29e Pork (because of its presumed etymology, Slaughtered pigs are hung by the heels from the bucket or beam) while go west appears under G12e Sunset, bite the dust (questionably defined as brought low) appears at C10f Winning and losing the battle, buy the farm (which I cannot find in the OED ) is listed under E7a Land (where it is labeled as an Americanism, confuting my understanding that it originated with the R.A.F., early in WWII), and cash in your chips/ checks goes under K77c Roulette (which might be all right for a British English classification, but I think that Americans would expect to find it at K81 Poker ).
And geisli hvarma, literally beam of the lids, means eye.
Apparently, some rescue workers took an adjacent elevator to the place where the man and woman were stuck, took out the side panels that separated the two elevator cars, then asked them to make a tightrope walk across a narrow beam that spanned the shaft between the two elevators, as if these two poor knee-knocking souls were suddenly the second coming of Karl Wallenda.
Modern laser-cutters, developed both in this country and Japan, leave the laser fixed in position and move the light beam around simply by computer-controlled tilting of the mirrors that guide the beam along the desired path.