bead
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
arts
business
carpentry
chemistry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
woodworking
Etymology: From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).
Inflected forms:
form: beads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.
gloss: Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: prayer beads
gloss: A small, round object.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, round object.
pos: noun
examples: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
gloss: A small, round object.
pos: noun
examples: beads of sweat
gloss: A small, round object.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, round object.
pos: noun
examples: She drew a bead on the target and fired.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
gloss: A small, round object.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project
gloss: A ridge, band, or molding.
pos: noun
gloss: A ridge, band, or molding.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: dated
physical
examples: the borax bead;  the iron bead, etc.
gloss: A decorative, convex, rounded profile (often a half-circle) cut into an edge or surface of wood, typically defined by a narrow, deep channel called a quirk.
pos: noun
gloss: To form into a bead.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
gloss: To apply beads to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She spent the morning beading the gown.
gloss: To form into a bead.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
gloss: To cause beads to form on (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it.
Derived words: adder bead
anal beads
angle bead
Baily's beads
beadboard
bead breaker
beaded lacewing
beaded lizard
beader
beadery
bead fern
beadful
beadless
beadlet
bead lightning
beadlike
bead lily
beadmaker
beadmaking
bead maze
bead proof
bead-rattler
beadroll
bead seat
beadsman
bead tracer
bead tree
bead-tree
beadwork
beady
bedeman
bid beads
borax bead test
captive bead ring
casing bead
Cuddy's beads
draw a bead on
drop one's beads
dzi bead
fairy-beads
Hail Mary bead
immunobead
iodobead
jet bead
jetbead
jumbie bead
lovebead
love-bead
love bead
macrobead
microbead
multibead
nanobead
parting bead
polybead
pony bead
prayer bead
prayer beads
read someone's beads
seed bead
St. Cuthbert's beads
sticky bead argument
stop bead
string of beads
take a bead on
tyre bead
water bead
worry beads
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: мончок
roman: mončok
lang: Chiricahua
word: yoo
lang: Lipan
word: yoo
lang: Plains Apache
word: zhoo
lang: Western Apache
word: yoo
lang: Western Apache
word: yoo’
lang: Bulgarian
word: топче
roman: topče
lang: Chickasaw
word: oksop
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 珠子
roman: zhūzi
lang: Dutch
word: parel
lang: Dutch
word: korrel
lang: Esperanto
word: bido
lang: Finnish
word: helmi
lang: French
word: perle
lang: Galician
word: doa
lang: Galician
word: abelorio
lang: Galician
word: adramán
lang: German
word: Perle
lang: Greek
word: χάντρα
roman: chántra
lang: Gujarati
word: મણકો
roman: maṇko
lang: Hungarian
word: gyöngyszem
lang: Hungarian
word: üveggyöngy
lang: Hungarian
word: gyöngy
lang: Hungarian
word: szemcse
lang: Hungarian
word: golyócska
lang: Hungarian
word: klikker
lang: Italian
word: grano
lang: Italian
word: perlina
lang: Japanese
word: ビーズ
roman: bīzu
lang: Japanese
word: 南京玉
roman: nankindama
lang: Kaitag
word: духа́р
roman: duꭓár
lang: Korean
word: 구슬
roman: guseul
lang: Central Kurdish
word: مووروو
roman: mûrû
lang: Macedonian
word: монисто
roman: monisto
lang: Macedonian
word: монистро
roman: monistro
lang: Malay
word: manik
lang: Māori
word: pirepire
lang: Middle English
word: bede
lang: Navajo
word: yoo’
lang: Persian
word: منجوق
roman: monjuq
lang: Persian
word: بلژی
roman: bolži
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Krall
lang: Polish
word: koralik
lang: Polish
word: paciorek
lang: Portuguese
word: conta
lang: Portuguese
word: missanga
lang: Russian
word: бу́сина
roman: búsina
lang: Slovak
word: korálka
lang: Slovak
word: perlička
lang: Slovene
word: koralda
lang: Slovene
word: perla
lang: Spanish
word: cuenta
lang: Spanish
word: mullo
lang: Spanish
word: abalorio
lang: Spanish
word: rocalla
lang: Spanish
word: gargantilla
lang: Spanish
word: mostacilla
lang: Swahili
word: ushanga
lang: Swedish
word: pärla
lang: Thai
word: ลูกปัด
roman: lûuk-bpàt
lang: Turkish
word: boncuk
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بونجق
roman: boncuk
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مهره
roman: mühre
lang: Ukrainian
word: нами́стина
roman: namýstyna
lang: Uyghur
word: مونچاق
roman: monchaq
lang: Welsh
word: glain
lang: German
word: Korn
lang: Hungarian
word: célgömb
lang: Hungarian
word: irányzék
lang: Slovak
word: muška