Definitions for beads

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beads bead

Spelling: [beed]

IPA: /bid/

Beads is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in beads (abdes).

Definitions for beads

noun

1. 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.
2. beads. a necklace of beads: a rosary. Obsolete. devotions; prayers.
3. any small globular or cylindrical body.
4. a drop of liquid:
5. a bubble rising through effervescent liquid.
6. Usually, beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid.
7. the front sight of a rifle or gun.
8. a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel.
9. Electricity. a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable.
10. 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.
11. Metallurgy. the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation.
12. Architecture, Furniture. a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal.
13. 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 beads

before 900; Middle English bede prayer, prayer bead (where, on a rosary each bead symbolizes a prayer, the word for the notion symbolized was transferred to the designating object), Old Engli

Examples for beads

Getting the gun out quickly and drawing a bead on a target, I decided, would challenge even Billy the Kid.

The wall directly opposite the entrance was covered in colorful glass and bead mosaics.

Net the third row plain, and begin the next with a bead stitch.

Then in the next row, net a plain and a bead stitch successively.

Down here a man could line the notch of his hindsight with the bead.

In contrast, Hell on Wheels often has too much happening to get a bead on where the story is going.

Then I saw a bead of sweat trickle down his forehead, and I knew that he was beaten.

It also takes years of training to be able to sew, embroider, bead, and otherwise embellish these clothes.

The bead embroidery on the back of her coat said “Revolution.”

Where you had previously raised, you must narrow with the bead you have upon the silk.