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n. (context colloquial English) a BMW car.
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Beamer may refer to:
- Beamer (cricket), an uncommon (illegal) cricket delivery which reaches the batsman at head-height, without bouncing
- Beamer (LaTeX), an extension to the LaTeX typesetting software for creating presentation slides
- Video projector, a pseudo-Anglicism in a number of languages including German, Dutch, Latvian and Swiss French
- Beamer Trail, a hiking trail in Grand Canyon National Park, US
- BMW car (slang)
- Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer (BEAmer), the French agency that investigates marine accidents
- Beamer (occupation), someone who attended to beams of yarn in the cotton industry
- Beamer (surname)
In the terminology of the game of cricket, a beamer (less commonly beam ball) is a type of delivery in which the ball (bowled at a fast pace), without bouncing, passes above the batsman's waist height. Such a ball is often dangerously close to the batsman's head, due to the lack of control a bowler has over high full tosses. Worse, the batsman is expecting the ball to pitch on the wicket and therefore may not pick up the flight of the ball and may be struck by it.
This type of delivery can result in injuries to the batsman, and the penalty is an immediate no-ball signal given by the umpire and, in Twenty20 and one-day matches, a free hit. The use of beamers is governed under Law 42.6. The bowler is then given a warning by the umpire for dangerous bowling. Repeated or deliberate cases may result in the bowler being barred from bowling again for the remainder of the innings (or match), as happened with Waqar Younis in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Fast or express bowlers, particularly younger players yet to fully refine their techniques, are likely to bowl such deliveries more often than other bowlers, albeit accidentally.
A beamer can severely injure a batsman, especially if the batsman's head is struck. Some cricket boards are considering introducing additional penalties in the form of monetary fines for the bowler if any batsman is injured as a result of this delivery.
A bowler can legally target the batsman with a ball aimed at his head that bounces, called a bouncer. These are much easier to play or avoid than beamers.
Typically a beamer is quite hard to bowl because the ball is usually released very early on in the action. Beamers are sometimes bowled when the ball is wet and it slips out of the bowler's hand. Some excuses given have been that it was an attempted yorker that slipped but this is generally not the case as a yorker is delivered much later in the action.
Abdur Rehman, a Pakistani spin bowler, bowled three consecutive beamers in the 2014 Asia Cup against Bangladesh, and was banned from the match without actually bowling a single legal ball, despite giving away 8 runs. This was the first time this happened in the history of cricket.
Beamer is a LaTeX document class for creating slides for presentations. It supports both pdfLaTeX and LaTeX + dvips. The name is taken from the German word "Beamer" as a pseudo-anglicism for " video projector".
A beamer was an occupation in the cotton industry. The taper's beam is a long cylinder with flanges where 400 plus ends (threads) are wound side-by-side. Creels of bobbins with the correct thread, mounted on a beaming frame wind their contents onto the beam. The machine is watched over by a "beamer".
In early days beaming was often done in the weaving shed but later the process tended to be transferred to the spinning mill. The spinners would send lorrys loaded with of beams wound with thread of the ordered specification to the weavers. Several tapers beams would be attached to creels on the Tape Sizing machine, and the threads from these would be sized and combined to create the smaller weavers beams. As a rule of thumb, a tapers beam had thread long enough to make 20 weavers beams.
Colloquially, the term beamer was used for anyone responsible for moving beams of yarn. In a weaving shed that bought its yarn on the beam, the Beamer would be the operative who carried new beams to the looms and gaited them.. A 'drawer-in' was sometimes referred to as a beamer.
Beamer is a surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Diane Beamer, Australian politician
- Frank Beamer (born 1946), American football coach
- George N. Beamer, a United States federal judge
- John V. Beamer, a Representative from Indiana in the US Congress
- Keola Beamer, a Hawaiian guitar player
- Shane Beamer (born 1977), son of Frank, also an American football coach
- Todd Beamer (1968–2001), a victim of the September 11th attacks
Usage examples of "beamer".
At its back, Eater edged into the room, beamer in one of its feeder hands.
Defensive and repulsor screens flared white and beamers and lasermen were very busy men indeed for a few minutes, but not one Galaxian vessel was very badly damaged or had to immerse.
Ah hud tae whisper n ah felt like ah wis gittin a beamer if muh Ma or Dad came in.
Deathstalker lowered the creature to the floor, holstered the beamer, and pulled the patternmaker from its harness.
While we waited for our pupils to adapt to the sudden dark, we fingered our beamers and peered into the blackness ahead.
She knew they were perfectly capable of tackling the armed humans, might kill a few before the beamers cut them down.
You have eighty seconds before they can hit you six times with their beamers while sending three more missiles after me.
Despite their ownership of beamers and skimmers they were obviously impressed.
In addition to skimmers and beamers this Tran also knew what a translator was and spoke of it as though he was familiar with it.
Suddenly the presence among the Tran of Yingyapin of a few beamers and skimmers seemed but a trifling breach of regulations.
Apparently the deal was that one of the bettors that bet with Sorkin through Fackelmann was a guy Gately and Fackelmann know only as Eighties Bill, an impeccably groomed guy that wore red suspenders under snazzy Zegna-brand menswear and tortoiseshell specs and Docksiders, an old-fashioned corporate take-overer and asset-plunderer, maybe fifty, with an Exchange Place office and a souvenir FREE MILKEN bumper sticker on his Beamer it was a night of many highballs and much papoosing, and Gately had to keep flicking the top of P.
On every side I was banked by sandbag walls bristling with machine guns, arbalists, microwave beamers, and other assorted deathdealers.
She fumbled her beamer out of its belt loop, set it on low, and turned it on.
I recognized it beyond doubt as being a lethal thermo-impulse beamer.
He had a paralysis beamer, but it was long-barreled and useless at close quarters.