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bead⋅ed

  [bee-did]
–adjective
ornamented with or largely composed of beads: a beaded handbag.
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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

bead 
1377, bede "prayer bead," from O.E. gebed "prayer," from P.Gmc. *beðan (cf. M.Du. bede, O.H.G. beta, Ger. bitte, Goth. bida). Shift in meaning came via beads threaded on a string to count prayers, and in phrases like to bid one's beads, to count one's beads. Ger. cognate Bitte is the usual word for conversational request "please." Also related to bid (O.E. biddan) and Goth. bidjan "to ask, pray." Sense transferred to "drop of liquid" 1596; to "small knob forming front sight of a gun" 1831 (Kentucky slang); hence draw a bead on "take aim at," 1841, U.S. colloquial.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

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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