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beacon
1[ bee-kuhn ]
noun
- a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
Synonyms: , , ,
- a tower or hill used for such purposes.
- a lighthouse, signal buoy, etc., on a shore or at a dangerous area at sea to warn and guide vessels.
- Navigation.
- a radar device at a fixed location that, upon receiving a radar pulse, transmits a reply pulse that enables the original sender to determine their position relative to the fixed location.
- a person, act, or thing that warns or guides.
- a person or thing that illuminates or inspires:
The Bible has been our beacon during this trouble.
- Digital Technology.
- a low-energy radio transmitter at a specific location within a store, museum, office space, etc., which identifies nearby mobile devices in order to send them location-specific messages or collect location-specific data:
There must be a beacon in the luggage aisle because I just got a coupon for this suitcase on my phone.
verb (used with object)
- to serve as a beacon to; warn or guide.
- to furnish or mark with beacons:
a ship assigned to beacon the shoals.
verb (used without object)
- to serve or shine as a beacon:
A steady light beaconed from the shore.
Beacon
2[ bee-kuhn ]
noun
- a city in SE New York.
beacon
/ 藞产颈藧办蓹苍 /
noun
- a signal fire or light on a hill, tower, etc, esp one used formerly as a warning of invasion
- a hill on which such fires were lit
- a lighthouse, signalling buoy, etc, used to warn or guide ships in dangerous waters
- short for radio beacon
- a radio or other signal marking a flight course in air navigation
- short for Belisha beacon
- a person or thing that serves as a guide, inspiration, or warning
- a stone set by a surveyor to mark a corner or line of a site boundary, etc
verb
- to guide or warn
- intr to shine
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 产别补路肠辞苍路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
- 耻苍路产别补路肠辞苍别诲 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of beacon1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of beacon1
Example Sentences
"Let this moment serve as a beacon of hope," he said.
In postwar America, food science was a beacon of progress.
Something is profoundly wrong when the country that defines itself as a beacon of freedom has 20% of the world鈥檚 prison population, but only 5% of the world鈥檚 population.
It is becoming plain that Kennedy is turning the department from a beacon of science-based medicine and public health into a hive of conspiracy theorists and, as Marks wrote, peddlers of 鈥渕isinformation and lies.鈥
I tried to activate the emergency beacon on my watch.
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