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bead⋅ed

  [bee-did]
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–adjective
ornamented with or largely composed of beads: a beaded handbag.
Origin:
1570–80; bead + -ed 3
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bead

  [beed]
–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. a necklace of beads: You don't have your beads on this evening.
b. a rosary.
c. Obsolete. devotions; prayers.
3. any small globular or cylindrical body.
4. a drop of liquid: beads of moisture.
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).
–verb (used with object)
14. to form or cause to form beads or a bead on.
15. to ornament with beads.
16. Carpentry. to form a bead on (a piece).
–verb (used without object)
17. to form beads; form in beads or drops: perspiration beading on his forehead.
—Idioms
18. count, say, or 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.
19. draw or get a bead on, to take careful aim at: The marksman drew a bead on his target.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME 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), OE gebed prayer; akin to bid 1 , G Gebet

Related forms:
beadlike, adjective

Synonyms:
4. droplet, globule, blob, dot.
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bead   (bēd)   
n.  
    1. A small, often round piece of material, such as glass, plastic, or wood, that is pierced for stringing or threading.
    2. beads A necklace made of such pieces.
    3. beads Roman Catholic Church A rosary.
    4. Obsolete A prayer. Often used in the plural.
    5. A drop of moisture: beads of sweat.
    6. A bubble of gas in a liquid.
    7. A small metal knob on the muzzle of a firearm, such as a rifle, used for sighting.
    8. A decoration consisting of a usually continuous series of small spherical shapes, as on a convex molding.
    9. Beading.
  2. A small, round object, especially:
    1. A drop of moisture: beads of sweat.
    2. A bubble of gas in a liquid.
    3. A small metal knob on the muzzle of a firearm, such as a rifle, used for sighting.
    4. A decoration consisting of a usually continuous series of small spherical shapes, as on a convex molding.
    5. Beading.
  3. A strip of material, usually wood, with one molded edge placed flush against the inner part of a door or window frame.
  4. Architecture
    1. A decoration consisting of a usually continuous series of small spherical shapes, as on a convex molding.
    2. Beading.
  5. A projecting rim or lip, as on a pneumatic tire.
  6. A line of continuously applied ductile material, such as solder or caulking compound.
  7. Chemistry A globule of fused borax or other flux used in a bead test.
tr. & intr.v.   bead·ed, bead·ing, beads
To furnish with or collect into beads.

[Middle English bede, rosary bead, prayer, from Old English bed, bedu, gebed, prayer; see gwhedh- in Indo-European roots.]
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beaded bead·ed (bē'dĭd)
adj.

  1. Having numerous small rounded projections often in a row.
  2. Relating to, or being a series of noncontinuous bacterial colonies along the line of inoculation in a stab culture.
  3. Of, relating to, or being stained bacteria that have more deeply stained granules occurring at regular intervals.

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