Definitions for beading

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beading bead·ing

Spelling: [bee-ding]

IPA: /ˈbi dɪŋ/

Beading is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in beading (abdegin).

Definitions for beading

noun

1. material composed of or adorned with beads.
2. narrow, lacelike trimming or edging.
3. narrow openwork trimming through which ribbon may be run.
4. Architecture, Furniture. a bead molding. all of the bead moldings in a single design.
5. 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.
6. beads. a necklace of beads: a rosary. Obsolete. devotions; prayers.
7. any small globular or cylindrical body.
8. a drop of liquid:
9. a bubble rising through effervescent liquid.
10. Usually, beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid.
11. the front sight of a rifle or gun.
12. a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel.
13. Electricity. a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable.
14. 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.
15. Metallurgy. the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation.
16. Architecture, Furniture. a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal.
17. Welding. a continuous deposit of fused metal, either straight (stringer bead) or zigzag (weave bead)

Idioms

1. count / say / tell one's beads, to say one's prayers, using rosary beads:
2. draw / get a bead on, to take careful aim at:

verb (used with object)

1. to form or cause to form beads or a bead on.
2. to ornament with beads.
3. Carpentry. to form a bead on (a piece).

verb (used without object)

1. to form beads; form in beads or drops:

Origin of beading

First recorded in 1855-60; bead + -ing¹

Examples for beading

She could also do beading and she was teaching Mary how to do it.

He could see the beading of sweat about her eyes and lips as she looked up at him.

Only—there was a beading of fine moisture inside the thick globe.

Sweat was beading his forehead, and he could feel his pulse racing.

The top may be finished by crocheting a beading and scallops of the colored wool.

It bore no ornamentation, save the beading of silver about its edges.

Night wove its shuttle across the sky, beading the dusk with stars.

For the past few days, 17-year-old Jeanne has been working on a beading project at KOFAVIV.

beading can be worked on this strip, as shown (see beading).

Vibrant color surfaced in textile and in beading and embroidery.