Kanye West

I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

American Rapper

Laurie Hernandez

Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.

American Athlete

Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

English Poet

Nadia Comaneci

I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

Romanian Athlete

David Trimble

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Irish Politician

Eric Betzig

What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.

American Physicist

Jordan Ladd

I love to travel but hate traffic and planes. I wish I could just beam myself anywhere instantly.

American Actress

William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

English Playwright

Agnes Martin

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Canadian Artist

William Shatner

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

Canadian Actor

Used in construction or architecture, referring to support structures within buildings or bridges.

Construction Context

When reading, imagine beams as essential horizontal supports to picture the scene correctly.

Visual Imagery

Refers to a visible path of light, often used poetically or descriptively in prose.

Visible Path

Suggests directional and focused light, unlike diffused or ambient light.

Directional Light

Indicates a particularly broad and infectious smile, showing happiness or pride.

Joyful Expression

Often used metaphorically to describe facial expressions, not necessarily with actual light.

Figure of Speech

Used to describe sending signals over distances, like in broadcasting or telecommunications.

Signal Transmission

In sports, refers specifically to the narrow platform used in gymnastic routines.

Specialized Equipment

Understand that in gymnastics language 'beam' refers to the apparatus, not just any beam-like object.

Gymnastics Jargon

 I got to the bottom of the article it said turn to page seven for exclusive interview I turned to page seven and I saw that they had titled the article for the love of words and I was beaming with pride and you know how in newspapers underneath the headline they'll always give you one line that is to make you want to read the rest of the article so

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 In the great scheme of things, it's a pinprick. A door closes on the light beam that's coming back to his eye. Then that group of students is one thought closer to being what every teacher hopes their students will a lifelong learner. Based on the distance between the two stations -- The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull.

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 But if tattoos are embedded in your skin for life, is there any way to erase them? Technically, yes. Today, a laser is used to penetrate the epidermis and blast apart underlying pigment colors of various wavelengths, black being the easiest to target. The laser beam breaks the ink globules into smaller particles

What makes tattoos...

 this bump could have appeared by a statistical fluke. So back to the dark matter. If the LHC's proton beams have enough energy to produce it, that's probably an even rarer occurrence than the Higgs boson. So it takes quadrillions of collisions combined with theoretical models to even start to look.

Could we create dark...

 are now circumvented through super sonic vehicles, cross-continental communication cables, and signals beamed through space rather than caravans traveling for months, none of it would have been possible without the pioneering cultures whose efforts created the Silk history's first world wide web.

The Silk Road:...

 hydrophone to the computer when the echolocation beam is strong enough for the computer to read the signal the trainer's whistle blows and the Dolphins get their chosen reward only three dolphins in the world have been trained to do this out of them Luna was the

Top 5 Most Intelligent...

 Over the millenia, as such light cups grew deeper in some organisms, the opening at the front grew smaller. The result was a pinhole effect, which increased resolution dramatically, reducing distortion by only allowing a thin beam of light into the eye.

The evolution of the...

 The data are beamed to astrophysicists around the world who look at the patterns of light for clues about the neutrinos that produced them. These super energetic collisions are so rare that IceCube's scientists give each neutrino nicknames,

Why neutrinos matter -...

 When the A.I. becomes superintelligent, it realizes that there is a more effective way to achieve this take control of the world and stick electrodes into the facial muscles of humans to cause constant, beaming grins. Another example,

What happens when our...

 blueprints photographs and construction data to create a wireframe world trade center structure every column girder and beam had to be in the correct place

Beam

A long piece of wood or metal used to support weight, especially in a building or a bridge.

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A line of light coming from a source such as sun or a flashlight.

Often appears as...

A smile that is extremely wide and happy.

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To send out light or signals using a device.

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A balance beam used in gymnastics.

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Construction Context

Visual Imagery

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