bead
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternosterEach in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
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Meaning
12 sensesEach in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
Holonym: prayer beads
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.
beads of sweat
Tropfen
ка́пляkáplja, ка́пелькаkápelʹka
A bubble, in spirits.
A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
She drew a bead on the target and fired.
Korn
a small ball with a hole through the middle
A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
(broadly)Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project
A ridge, band, or molding.
A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
A narrow molding with semicircular section.
(dated, physical)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.
the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
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.
(archaic)Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
би́серbíser, бу́сыbúsy, чёткиčótki
бісери́наbiserýna
Examples
42 sentencesAchieving a nice weld bead is not within everyone's reach!
Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.
Краплини поту виступили на його чолі.
ruУ него на лбу выступили капли пота.
Sweat beaded on Tom's forehead.
Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
Sami was fingering his prayer beads.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of beFrom 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.
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