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Definition of 'Bead'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bead
a small, usu. 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.

2.  bead
beads,

3.  bead
a necklace of beads.

4.  bead
a rosary.

5.  bead
any small globular or cylindrical body, as a drop of liquid or a bubble in an effervescent liquid:
beads of sweat.

6.  bead
the front sight of a rifle or gun.

7.  bead
a reinforced area of a rubber tire.

8.  bead
a small molding having a convex circular section and, usu., a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal.

9.  bead
a continuous deposit of fused metal formed by arc welding.

10. (v.t.) bead
to ornament with beads.

11.  bead
to form beads or a bead on.

12. (v.i.) bead
to form beads; form in beads or drops.

Definition of 'Bead'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bead
a small ball with a hole through the middle

2. (noun) drop, bead, pearl
a shape that is spherical and small
"he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead"

3. (verb) beading, bead, beadwork, astragal
a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

4. (verb) bead
form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

5. (verb) bead
decorate by sewing beads onto
"bead the wedding gown"

6. (verb) bead
string together like beads

Definition of 'Bead'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bead
a small round piece of decorative glass or plastic
the colored beads of her necklace

Definition of 'Bead'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Bead
a prayer

2. (noun) Bead
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 at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer

3. (noun) Bead
any small globular body

4. (noun) Bead
a bubble in spirits

5. (noun) Bead
a drop of sweat or other liquid

6. (noun) Bead
a small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim)

7. (noun) Bead
a small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments

8. (noun) Bead
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; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc

9. (verb) Bead
to ornament with beads or beading

10. (verb) Bead
to form beadlike bubbles

Translation of 'Bead'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a little ball of glass etc strung with others in a necklace etc She's wearing two strings of wooden beads.
Afrikaans: kraal, kraletjie	Arabic: خَرَزَه	Bulgarian: мънисто
Brazilian: conta	Czech: korálek	German: die Perle
Danish: perle	Greek: χάντρα	Spanish: cuenta
Estonian: helmes	Farsi: دانه؛ مهره	Finnish: helmi
French: perle	Hebrew: חָרוּז	Hindi: गुटका माला का दाना
Croatian: zrno, biser, kap	Hungarian: (üveg)gyöngy	Indonesian: manik-manik
Icelandic: perla	Italian: perlina	Japanese: ビーズ玉
Korean: 구슬	Lithuanian: karoliukas	Latvian: kreļļu virtene; krelles
Malay: manik	Dutch: kraal	Norwegian: perle
Polish: koralik	Persian: دانه؛ مهره	Pashto: مرۍ، موشكڼې، د مرۍ دانه،
Portuguese: conta	Romanian: mărgea; perlă	Russian: бусина
Slovak: koráľ	Slovenian: kroglica (na ogrlici)	Serbian: perla
Swedish: pärla	Thai: ลูกปัด	Turkish: boncuk(tanesi); tesbih vb
Taiwanese: 小珠子	Ukrainian: намистина	Urdu: تسبیح یا ہار کے دانے
Vietnamese: hạt	Chinese: 小球，小珠子
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