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Beam

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

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Broader term 22

Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Bare 76% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Breadth 76% connected

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Evince 76% connected

To conquer; to subdue.

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Exerciser 76% connected

One who exercises.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Light 76% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Signal 76% connected

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

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Signaling 76% connected

of Signal

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Signalling 76% connected

of Signal

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Smile 76% connected

To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.

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Width 76% connected

The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

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Balk 76% connected

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

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Baulk 76% connected

See Balk.

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Cantilever 76% connected

Same as Cantalever.

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Crossbeam 76% connected

A girder.

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Crosspiece 76% connected

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

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Girder 76% connected

One who girds; a satirist.

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Header 76% connected

One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

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Joist 76% connected

A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- call…

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Keel 76% connected

To cool; to skim or stir.

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Keelson 76% connected

A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a stru…

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Lintel 76% connected

A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

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Moonbeam 76% connected

A ray of light from the moon.

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Rafter 76% connected

A raftsman.

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Ridge 76% connected

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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Ridgepole 76% connected

The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

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Rooftree 76% connected

The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.

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Shore 76% connected

of Shear

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Shoring 76% connected

of Shore

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Sunbeam 76% connected

A beam or ray of the sun.

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Tie 76% connected

A knot; a fastening.

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Timber 76% connected

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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Trave 76% connected

A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

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Traverse 76% connected

Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

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Manner of action 16

Beacon 76% connected

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

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Blaze 76% connected

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Flame 76% connected

A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

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Flare 76% connected

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

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Flick 76% connected

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

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Flicker 76% connected

To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.

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Glare 76% connected

To shine with a bright, dazzling light.

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Glow 76% connected

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Interrogate 76% connected

To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

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Outshine 76% connected

To shine forth.

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Satellite 76% connected

An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.

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Scintillate 76% connected

To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.

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Shimmer 76% connected

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

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Twinkle 76% connected

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

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Winkle 76% connected

Any periwinkle.

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Derivationally related 10

Beamy 74% connected

Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.

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Beamy 74% connected

Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.

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Glow 74% connected

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Glow 74% connected

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Refulgency 74% connected

The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.

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Refulgency 74% connected

The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.

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Shine 74% connected

To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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Shine 74% connected

To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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Transmitter 74% connected

One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- oppos…

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Transmitter 74% connected

One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- oppos…

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Causes 1

Air 72% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Wood 70% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Synonym 10

Air 92% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Broadcast 92% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Glow 92% connected

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Irradiation 92% connected

Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.

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Radiate 92% connected

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

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Ray 92% connected

To array.

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Send 92% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Shaft 92% connected

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

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Shine 92% connected

To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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Transmit 92% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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