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. — ChickenKiev
ruУ него на лбу выступили капли пота. — marafon
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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