Beacon
['biːk(ə)n] or ['bikən]
Definition
(noun.) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
(noun.) a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance.
(verb.) guide with a beacon.
(verb.) shine like a beacon.
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Definition
(n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
(n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
(n.) A high hill near the shore.
(n.) That which gives notice of danger.
(v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
(v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Signal-fire.[2]. Mark, sign, signal.
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Definition
n. a fire on an eminence used as a sign of danger: a hill on which such could be lighted: anything that warns of danger esp. an erection of stone wood or iron often bearing a light and marking rocks or shoals in rivers or navigable channels.—v.t. to act as a beacon to: to light up: to mark by means of beacons.—n. Float′ing-bea′con a light-ship.
Editor: Val
Examples
- To lay down on the rocks, a stick, or any straight thing to guide my hand, exactly in the line of the beacon and the flagstaff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling, replied De Bracy; but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Caroline was obliged to reply, Yes, and her beacon was quenched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With Betteredge's help, I soon stood in the right position to see the Beacon and the Coast-guard flagstaff in a line together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In a volume like this, room exists for mention only of those inventions which burn as beacon lights on the tallest hills--and so we must now pass on to others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For that beacon Malone steered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My directions in the memorandum instructed me to feel along the line traced by the stick, beginning with the end which was nearest to the beacon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To feel along the stick, among the sea-weed (beginning from the end of the stick which points towards the beacon), for the Chain. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To walk out on the South Spit, until I get the South Spit Beacon, and the flagstaff at the Coast-guard station above Cobb's Hole in a line together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We can share in imagination, not only the wonder of Hanno's sailors, but of the men who lit the warning beacons on the shore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Beacons of the future! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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