"beamful" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more beamful [comparative], most beamful [superlative]
Etymology: From beam + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|beam|ful|pos=adjective}} beam + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} beamful (comparative more beamful, superlative most beamful)
  1. Beamy; radiant; luminous.
    Sense id: en-beamful-en-adj-cWMVHN2u Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of English nouns suffixed with -ful: 85 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: beamfuls [plural]
Etymology: beam + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|beam|ful|pos=noun}} beam + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} beamful (plural beamfuls)
  1. A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)
    Sense id: en-beamful-en-noun-Zt5ALqwK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for beamful meaning in English (3.6kB)

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          "ref": "1929, Walter Jerrold, Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold, Five Queer Women, page 236",
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          "ref": "2011, Tim Pears, Landed, page 205",
          "text": "A rider on a horse approaches: a torch attached to saddle or bridle illuminates a beamful of plummeting needles of rain, as if to reveal them rather than clarify the way forward for the rider.",
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          "ref": "2008, Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala",
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          "ref": "2011, Tim Pears, Landed, page 205",
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