bead

Meaning of bead

noun
  1. Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
  2. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
  3. A small, round object.
  4. (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
  5. Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
    We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project
  6. A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
    the borax bead;  the iron bead, etc.
  7. Front sight of a gun.
verb
  1. To form into a bead.
    The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
  2. To apply beads to.
    She spent the morning beading the gown.
  3. To form into a bead.
    He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
  4. To cause beads to form on (something).

Information about bead

  • The plural form of bead is: beads.
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Hyphenation of bead

bead

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • bead is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bead synonyms

Meaning drop:

drop, pearl

Meaning beading:

beading, beadwork, astragal

Anagrams of bead

ABEd, abed, bade, BAEd

Words that rhyme with bead

bluebead, jetbead

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