ALL meanings of beading
bead·ing
B b - uncountable noun beading Beading is a narrow strip of wood that is used for decorating or edging furniture and doors. 3
- uncountable noun beading Beading is an arrangement of beads used for decorating clothes. 3
- noun beading a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation 3
- noun beading decorative work in beads on dresses, purses, etc. 3
- noun beading a molding, edge, or pattern resembling a row of beads 3
- noun beading a narrow, half-round molding 3
- noun beading a narrow trimming of lacelike loops 3
- noun beading an openwork trimming through which a ribbon can be run 3
- noun beading 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 beading beads. a necklace of beads: You don't have your beads on this evening. a rosary. Obsolete. devotions; prayers. 1
- noun beading any small globular or cylindrical body. 1
- noun beading a drop of liquid: beads of moisture. 1
- noun beading a bubble rising through effervescent liquid. 1
- noun beading Usually, beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid. 1
- noun beading the front sight of a rifle or gun. 1
- noun beading a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel. 1
- noun beading Electricity. a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable. 1
- noun beading 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 beading Metallurgy. the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation. 1
- noun beading Architecture, Furniture. a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal. 1
- noun beading Welding. a continuous deposit of fused metal, either straight (stringer bead) or zigzag (weave bead) 1
- verb with object beading to form or cause to form beads or a bead on. 1
- verb with object beading to ornament with beads. 1
- verb with object beading Carpentry. to form a bead on (a piece). 1
- verb without object beading to form beads; form in beads or drops: perspiration beading on his forehead. 1
- idioms beading 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 beading draw / get a bead on, to take careful aim at: The marksman drew a bead on his target. 1
- noun beading Decoration or ornamental molding resembling a string of beads or of a semicircular cross section. 1
- noun beading decoration with beads 1
- noun beading (architecture) Decoration or ornamental molding resembling a string of beads or of a semicircular cross section. 0
- noun beading The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors. 0
- verb beading present participle of bead. 0