Bead

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, often round piece of material, such as glass, plastic, or wood, that is pierced for stringing or threading.
  • n. A necklace made of such pieces.
  • n. Roman Catholic Church A rosary.
  • n. Obsolete A prayer. Often used in the plural.
  • n. A small, round object, especially:
  • n. A drop of moisture: beads of sweat.
  • n. A bubble of gas in a liquid.
  • n. A small metal knob on the muzzle of a firearm, such as a rifle, used for sighting.
  • n. A strip of material, usually wood, with one molded edge placed flush against the inner part of a door or window frame.
  • n. Architecture A decoration consisting of a usually continuous series of small spherical shapes, as on a convex molding.
  • n. Architecture Beading.
  • n. A projecting rim or lip, as on a pneumatic tire.
  • n. A line of continuously applied ductile material, such as solder or caulking compound.
  • n. Chemistry A globule of fused borax or other flux used in a bead test.
  • v. To furnish with or collect into beads.
  • idiom. draw To take careful aim at.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small round object
  • n. A ridge, band, or molding.
  • n. A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
  • v. To form into a bead.
  • v. To apply beads to.
  • v. To form into a bead.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A prayer.
  • n. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to be at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
  • n. Any small globular body.
  • n. A bubble in spirits.
  • n. A drop of sweat or other liquid.
  • n. A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
  • n. A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
  • n. A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe
  • v. To ornament with beads or beading.
  • verb-intransitive. To form beadlike bubbles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Prayer; a prayer; specifically, a prayer of the list or bead-roll, read at public church-services by the preacher before his sermon, or by the curate (see bead-roll): usually in the plural.
  • n. One of the little balls, of wood, cocoanut-shell, pearl, glass, jewels, or other material, strung in a prescribed order, which form the chaplet or rosary in use in the devotions of Roman Catholics, Buddhists, etc., to keep count of the number of prayers said. See pair of beads, below.
  • n. Anything resembling a rosary-bead, strung with others for ornament, as in necklaces or beadwork: as, glass, amber, metal, coral, or other beads.
  • n. Any small globular, cylindrical, or annular body, as the small projecting piece of metal at the end of a gun-barrel used as a sight, a drop of liquid, etc.
  • n. One of the circular markings of certain diatoms.
  • n. The bubble or mass of bubbles rising to the top or resting on the surface of a liquid when shaken or decanted: as, the bead of wines or spirits.
  • n. A glass globule for trying the strength of alcoholic spirits.
  • n. In mineralogy, in the blowpipe examination of minerals, a globule of borax or other flux which is supported on a platinum wire, and in which the substance under examination is dissolved in the blowpipe flame.
  • n. In arch. and joinery, a small convex molding, in section a semicircle or greater than a semicircle; properly, a plain molding, but often synonymous with astragal, which is better reserved for a small convex molding cut into the form of a string of beads.
  • n. In bookbinding, shoemaking, etc., any cord-like prominence, as the roll on the head-band of a book, the seam of a shoe, etc.
  • n. that is, “set of beads” (), a rosary; now, specifically, a chaplet of five decades, that is, a third part of the rosary. A chaplet or pair of beads, as thus restricted, is the form in common use under the name of the beads. The large beads between the decades were formerly called gaudies (see gaud, gaudy); each separate bead, or grain, as it is now termed, Tyndale calls a stone.
  • n. literally, to offer (one's) prayers; hence the later equivalent phrases to say or recite (one's) beads, now with reference, as literally in the phrase to tell (one's) beads, to counting off prayers by means of the beads on the rosary. The phrases to count and to number (one's) beads are merely literary.
  • To ornament with beads; raise beads upon.
  • n. In weaving, a roughness of yarn due to fraying by friction or rubbing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example
  • v. decorate by sewing beads onto
  • v. string together like beads
  • n. a shape that is spherical and small
  • n. a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
  • n. a small ball with a hole through the middle
  • Verb Form
    beaded    beading    beads   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    form    grace    decorate    beautify    ornament    adorn    embellish    draw    string    thread   
    Form
    beaded    beading   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prayer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aristide    Bede    Ede    Gilead    Mead    Meade    Read    Reed    Reid    Sinead   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ribbon    jewel    necklace    silk    ornament    feather    jewelry    thread    scarf    coin