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  1. Beams

    Beams is a Japanese clothing brand, established in 1976 in Harajuku district of Tokyo, whose chief executive officer is Yo Shitara. Besides stores in many places in Japan, they have branch offices in New York, Milan, London, and Paris.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. beams

    Strong transverse pieces of timber stretching across the ship from one side to the other, to support the decks and retain the sides at their proper distance, with which they are firmly connected by means of strong knees, and sometimes of standards. They are sustained at each end by thick stringers on the ship's side, called shelf-pieces, upon which they rest. The main-beam is next abaft the main-mast, which is stepped between two beams with transverse supports termed partners; the foremost of these is generally termed the main-beam, or the after-beam of the main-hatchway. The greatest beam of all is called the midship-beam.

Editors Contribution

  1. beams

    Plural form of beam.

    The house was a traditional cottage and had beautiful beams in the ceiling that were original.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 20, 2015  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BEAMS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Beams is ranked #17142 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Beams surname appeared 1,653 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Beams.

    86% or 1,423 total occurrences were White.
    4.1% or 68 total occurrences were Black.
    4% or 67 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    3.9% or 66 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.8% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of beams in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of beams in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of beams in a Sentence

  1. Mimi Son and Elliot Woods:

    The work is supposed to collaborate with that anticipation of sunshine ... (It) brings together different natural elements to create this drawing that will hang inside the air, using light from the sun and a set of robotic mirrors, we're able to create beams of light in the air and we catch those in a mist of water ... and each one of those beams becomes a line in that mist and together they'll form a single circle.

  2. Author Unknown:

    A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

  3. Walt Whitman:

    Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  4. La Rochefoucauld:

    Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

  5. Magdalena Svensson:

    We follow them at night, and whenever they make their calls we record them, they get used to you. Within an hour they don't run away anymore. We also use red light beams which don't disturb them.

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