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bead
[ beed ]
noun
- a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- beads,
- a necklace of beads:
You don't have your beads on this evening.
- a rosary.
- Obsolete. devotions; prayers.
- any small globular or cylindrical body.
- a drop of liquid:
beads of moisture.
Synonyms: , , ,
- a bubble rising through effervescent liquid.
- Usually beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid.
- the front sight of a rifle or gun.
- a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel.
- Electricity. a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable.
- Chemistry. a globule of borax or some other flux, supported on a platinum wire, in which a small amount of some substance is heated in a flame as a test for its constituents.
- Metallurgy. the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation.
- Architecture, Furniture. a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal.
- Welding. a continuous deposit of fused metal, either straight stringer bead or zigzag weave bead.
verb (used with object)
- to form or cause to form beads or a bead on.
- to ornament with beads.
- Carpentry. to form a bead on (a piece).
verb (used without object)
- to form beads; form in beads or drops:
perspiration beading on his forehead.
bead
/ ²ú¾±Ë»å /
noun
- a small usually spherical piece of glass, wood, plastic, etc, with a hole through it by means of which it may be strung with others to form a necklace, etc
- a small drop of moisture
a bead of sweat
- a small bubble in or on a liquid
- a small metallic knob acting as the sight of a firearm
- draw a bead onto aim a rifle or pistol at
- Also calledastragal architect carpentry a small convex moulding having a semicircular cross section
- chem a small solid globule made by fusing a powdered sample with borax or a similar flux on a platinum wire. The colour of the globule serves as a test for the presence of certain metals ( bead test )
- metallurgy a deposit of welding metal on the surface of a metal workpiece, often used to examine the structure of the weld zone
- RC Church one of the beads of a rosary
- count one's beads or say one's beads or tell one's beadsto pray with a rosary
verb
- tr to decorate with beads
- to form into beads or drops
Derived Forms
- ˈ²ú±ð²¹»å±ð»å, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- ²ú±ð²¹»ål¾±°ì±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bead1
Idioms and Phrases
- count / say / tell one's beads, to say one's prayers, using rosary beads:
There were a few old women counting their beads in the hushed silence of the chapel.
- draw / get a bead on, to take careful aim at:
The marksman drew a bead on his target.
More idioms and phrases containing bead
see draw a bead on .Example Sentences
"They were not just colleagues but friends", Munther says, nervously running prayer beads through his fingers.
He said small objects like beads and batteries pose a common risk but it is also important to "cut up food small enough for a child, appropriate to their age".
After the lecture, Lori and I ambled through the galleries together, commenting on the spectacular beaded and sequined art and opening up to each other.
One account said the Russians paid the Kashia Pomo people already living there “three blankets, two axes, three hoes, and a miscellaneous assortment of beads†for the use of the land.
Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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