beamer

See also: Beamer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbimɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From beam (“balance beam”) +‎ -er.

Noun

beamer (plural beamers)

1. (gymnastics, slang) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.

Etymology 2

From beam (“project, transmit”) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, +‎ -er (patient suffix).

Noun

beamer (plural beamers)

1. (cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.
2. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) A projector.
   • 2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects‎^[1], →ISBN, page 210:

     The plan can be projected on to a white board, […] or by using a beamer (data projector).

3. (science fiction) A device that projects or transmits matter, information, or energy.
   • 2013, Paul Alcorn, The Rhoedraegon Chronicles: Book Two:

     For several days he went about his charge with disgust, trying everything he could to avoid the stench of rotting vegetation and of human feces, which was overpowering even as it all burned under the plasma from his beamer.

4. (informal) A big smile.
   • 2005, Judsen Culbreth, The Boomer's Guide to Online Dating, page 162:

     Get your pre-smile working, move toward him, shake hands, glue eyes […] and then launch your beamer, a big, toothy (uppers and lowers showing) grin.

Usage notes

• (projector): The term is sometimes used in English by non-native speakers after German Beamer and Dutch beamer, which are pseudo-anglicisms.

See also

• (baseball): beaner

Etymology 3

Clipping of BMW +‎ -er

Noun

beamer (plural beamers)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”)

   Synonyms: beemer, bimmer, BMW

Anagrams

• Bermea, Breema, ambeer

Dutch

Etymology 1

From beamen (“to assent”) +‎ -er (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈaːmər/
• Hyphenation: be‧amer
• Rhymes: -aːmər

Noun

beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)

1. a consenter, who assents to a statement

Etymology 2

A pseudo-anglicism. Compare German Beamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.mər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bea‧mer

Noun

beamer m (plural beamers, diminutive beamertje n)

1. a video projector

Anagrams

• berame