"beam-on" meaning in English

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "head-on"
    },
    {
      "word": "quartering"
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "beam-on (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022), 1st edition, Witherby Seamanship International, 3.1.2",
          "text": "Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "\"The jetski slewed around and hit the buoy beam-on. A bystander on the dock hastily threw a lifeline, which flew over the swimming jetskier's head and hit our boat beam-on, tangling itself in the shrouds.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel."
      ],
      "id": "en-beam-on-en-adv-j2ZzNfHk",
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        [
          "abeam",
          "abeam"
        ],
        [
          "ahead",
          "ahead"
        ],
        [
          "head-on",
          "head-on"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "astern",
          "astern"
        ],
        [
          "abaft",
          "abaft"
        ],
        [
          "quartering",
          "quartering"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beam-on"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "head-on"
    },
    {
      "word": "quartering"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "adv",
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        "en:Nautical"
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022), 1st edition, Witherby Seamanship International, 3.1.2",
          "text": "Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "\"The jetski slewed around and hit the buoy beam-on. A bystander on the dock hastily threw a lifeline, which flew over the swimming jetskier's head and hit our boat beam-on, tangling itself in the shrouds.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel."
      ],
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          "abeam",
          "abeam"
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          "ahead",
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        ],
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          "head-on",
          "head-on"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "astern",
          "astern"
        ],
        [
          "abaft",
          "abaft"
        ],
        [
          "quartering",
          "quartering"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
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    }
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  "word": "beam-on"
}