bead
IPA: bˈid
noun
- (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A small, round object.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A ridge, band, or molding.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- (chemistry, dated) 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.
verb
- (intransitive) To form into a bead.
- (transitive) To apply beads to.
- (transitive) To form into a bead.
- (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
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Examples of "bead" in Sentences
- The beads were the size of peas.
- The dress was beaded with beautiful beads.
- The ceilings of the porches are bead board.
- The axis of the bead is horizontal to the work.
- The bead is normally opaque and the tube transparent.
- The axis of the bead is horizontal with respect to the work.
- The benefit of using bead probes is in the small size of the beads.
- The bead loosening system releases the tire bead from the rim of the wheel.
- Almost all new abacuses have one bead on the top and 4 beads on the bottom.
- The bead or beads are suitably ejector beads utilized in the molding operation.
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