beam
要点はり、けた、光線、輝き、輝く
意味
- (建設の)はり,けた,横材
- (船の甲板を支える)横はり
- (はかりの)さお;(織機の)糸巻き
- 光線,光束
- (顔などの)輝き,晴れやかさ
- (船舶・航空機用の)信号電波
- 最大船幅
- 《副詞[句]を伴って》輝く,光を発する
- (…に)顔を輝かせる《+at(on, upon)+名》
- 〈光・熱〉を出す,発散する
- (…に向けて)〈放送・無線信号〉を送る《+名+at(to)+名》
- …を顔を輝かせて言う
例文
These beams will not carry the weight of the roof.
この柱では屋根を支えきれない。
This beam won't hold the weight of the second story.
この梁は２階の重さに耐えられないだろう。
A beam of sunlight came through the clouds.
雲間から一条の光が漏れてきた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bem, beem, from Old English bēam (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with North Frisian Boom, buum (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), West Frisian beam (“tree”), Cimbrian pome, póom, puam (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Mòcheno pa'm (“tree”), Vilamovian baojm (“tree”), Yiddish בוים (boym, “tree”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bom (“beam”), Icelandic baðmur…