What is the meaning of BEACON. Phrases containing BEACON
See meanings and uses of BEACON!Slangs & AI meanings
A person who has a large behind or more ample frame than required. Used as "You beacon" or "Lose some weight you beacon!".
Beacon is British slang for a red nose.
A lighted or unlighted fixed aid to navigation attached directly to the earth's surface.
Anticollision beacon on an aircraft.
n yellow flashing lights on sticks that are positioned next to zebra crossings and flash constantly to alert drivers. They were named after Hore Belisha, who was Minister of Transport when they were introduced. Perhaps a more interesting derivation was put forward by an episode of the BBC radio programme “Radio Active,” which featured an unwinnable quiz, one of the questions being “From where did the Belisha Beacon get its name?” Answer: “From the word ‘beacon’.” I was younger then, and in the cold light of day it seems less funny now than it once did. You can’t take away my childhood.
n the black-and-white striped pathways drawn across roads where pedestrians have right of way and motorists have to stop if anyone is waiting by them. The phrase has been slightly usurped by the less exciting term “pedestrian crossing.” While this very concept of “it’s alright, on you go, the cars all have to stop” is dangerous enough, a great deal of them are positioned straight after roundabouts where motorists are least likely to be ready for them. I swear these things are part of some sort of population control policy. To make them marginally easier to see, some of them are marked with Belisha Beacons.
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That which gives notice of danger.
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Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.
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An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.
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A high hill near the shore.
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v. t.
To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
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A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
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A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.
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Having no beacon.
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Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
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A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
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A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
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A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
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n.
A beacon.
v. t.
To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
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