Commit and Beam

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• A signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather.
  • synonyms: radio beam
• Long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction.
• A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.
  • synonyms: ray, electron beam
• A column of light (as from a beacon.
  • synonyms: beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation
• Nautical) breadth amidships. (
• The broad side of a ship.
  • usage: "they sighted land on the port beam"
• A gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts.
  • synonyms: balance beam

verb

• Smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression.
• Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.
  • usage: "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces"
  • synonyms: shine
• Express with a beaming face or smile.
  • usage: "he beamed his approval"
• Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.
  • usage: "We cannot air this X-rated song"
  • synonyms: air, send, broadcast, transmit
• Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.
  • usage: "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
  • synonyms: glow, radiate, shine
• Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.
  • usage: "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness"
  • synonyms: glow, radiate, shine

• (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
• (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
• (v.t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.
• (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.
• (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
• (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers or branches.
• (v.i.) To emit beams of light.
• (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
• (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• (n.) The pole of a carriage.
• (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
• (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light or of heat.
• (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.