Bead meanings. All definitions of Bead

countable noun bead Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery. 3

countable noun bead A bead of liquid or moisture is a small drop of it. 3

noun bead a small usually spherical piece of glass, wood, plastic, etc, with a hole through it by means of which it may be strung with others to form a necklace, etc 3

noun bead a small drop of moisture 3

noun bead a small bubble in or on a liquid 3

noun bead a small metallic knob acting as the sight of a firearm 3

noun bead a small convex moulding having a semicircular cross section 3

noun bead a small solid globule made by fusing a powdered sample with borax or a similar flux on a platinum wire. The colour of the globule serves as a test for the presence of certain metals (bead test) 3

noun bead a deposit of welding metal on the surface of a metal workpiece, often used to examine the structure of the weld zone 3

noun bead one of the beads of a rosary 3

verb bead to decorate with beads 3

verb bead to form into beads or drops 3

noun bead a small, usually round piece of glass, wood, metal, etc., pierced for stringing 3

noun bead rosary (sense 1) rosary (sense 1a) 3

noun bead a string of beads; necklace 3

noun bead any small, round object, as the sight at the muzzle end of a gun barrel 3

noun bead a drop or bubble 3

noun bead a bubble in an effervescing liquid 3

noun bead foam or a head, as on beer 3

noun bead a globule of metal, as gold or silver, obtained by refining in a cupel 3

noun bead the liplike region around a pneumatic tire that seals to the rim 3

noun bead a narrow, half-round molding 3

noun bead a molding composed of small rounded ornaments, like a string of beads 3

noun bead a beadlike mass usually formed inside the loop of a platinum wire by the action of a flux, such as borax, upon the oxide or salt of certain metals: used in identifying metals in their compounds, since the metal determines the color of the bead 3

verb transitive bead to decorate or string with beads or beading 3

verb transitive bead to string like beads 3

intransitive verb bead to form a bead or beads 3

noun bead a small, usually 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. 1

noun bead beads. a necklace of beads: You don't have your beads on this evening. a rosary. Obsolete. devotions; prayers. 1

noun bead any small globular or cylindrical body. 1

noun bead a drop of liquid: beads of moisture. 1

noun bead a bubble rising through effervescent liquid. 1

noun bead Usually, beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid. 1

noun bead the front sight of a rifle or gun. 1

noun bead a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel. 1

noun bead Electricity. a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable. 1

noun bead Chemistry. a globule of borax or some other flux, supported on a platinum wire, in which a small amount of some substance is heated in a flame as a test for its constituents. 1

noun bead Metallurgy. the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation. 1

noun bead Architecture, Furniture. a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal. 1

noun bead Welding. a continuous deposit of fused metal, either straight (stringer bead) or zigzag (weave bead) 1

verb with object bead to form or cause to form beads or a bead on. 1

verb with object bead to ornament with beads. 1

verb with object bead Carpentry. to form a bead on (a piece). 1

verb without object bead to form beads; form in beads or drops: perspiration beading on his forehead. 1

idioms bead count / say / tell one's beads, to say one's prayers, using rosary beads: There were a few old women counting their beads in the hushed silence of the chapel. 1

idioms bead draw / get a bead on, to take careful aim at: The marksman drew a bead on his target. 1

noun bead A small piece of glass, stone, or similar material, typically rounded and perforated for threading with others as a necklace or rosary or for sewing onto fabric. 1

noun bead jewellery piece 1

transitive verb bead attach beads 1

intransitive verb bead liquid: form droplets 1

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