bead
The definition of bead is a small piece of plastic, glass or wood, often round in shape, with a hole in the center for threading, which is used for making objects such as jewelry.
(noun)An example of a bead is the colored round plastic ball used to make a necklace.
Bead is defined as a drop or bubble of something.
(noun)An example of a bead is a small drop of sweat on a person’s forehead.
To bead is defined as to put rounded objects with a hole in the center onto a string, or onto an object of some type.
(verb)- An example of bead is to thread various shaped pieces of rounded objects onto a string to make a bracelet.
- An example of bead is to glue rounded pieces of material onto a lampshade for the purpose of decoration.
See bead in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a small, usually round piece of glass, wood, metal, etc., pierced for stringing
- rosary (sense )
- a string of beads; necklace
- any small, round object, as the sight at the muzzle end of a gun barrel
- a drop or bubble: beads of sweat
- a bubble in an effervescing liquid
- foam or a head, as on beer
- a globule of metal, as gold or silver, obtained by refining in a cupel
- the liplike region around a pneumatic tire that seals to the rim
- Archit.
- a narrow, half-round molding
- a molding composed of small rounded ornaments, like a string of beads
- Chem. 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
Origin: ME bede, prayer, prayer bead < OE bed < biddan, to pray, ask: see bid
transitive verb
- to decorate or string with beads or beading
- to string like beads
intransitive verb
Related Forms:
- beaded adjective
See bead in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A small, often round piece of material, such as glass, plastic, or wood, that is pierced for stringing or threading.b. beads A necklace made of such pieces.c. beads Roman Catholic Church A rosary.d. Obsolete A prayer. Often used in the plural.
- A small, round object, especially:a. A drop of moisture: beads of sweat.b. A bubble of gas in a liquid.c. A small metal knob on the muzzle of a firearm, such as a rifle, used for sighting.
- A strip of material, usually wood, with one molded edge placed flush against the inner part of a door or window frame.
- Architecture a. A decoration consisting of a usually continuous series of small spherical shapes, as on a convex molding.b. Beading.
- A projecting rim or lip, as on a pneumatic tire.
- A line of continuously applied ductile material, such as solder or caulking compound.
- Chemistry A globule of fused borax or other flux used in a bead test.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English bede, rosary bead, prayer
Origin: , from Old English bed, bedu, gebed, prayer; see gwhedh- in Indo-European roots
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