bead

  • 21bead — I. noun Etymology: Middle English bede prayer, prayer bead, from Old English bed, gebed prayer; akin to Old English biddan to entreat, pray more at bid Date: before 12th century 1. a. obsolete prayer usually used in plural b. plural a series of… …

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  • 22bead — 1. noun /biːd/ a) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. That he must believe in the Pope; go to Mass; cross himself; tell his beads; be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven. b) Each in a string… …

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  • 23bead — n. front sight to draw a bead on * * * [biːd] [ front sight ] to draw a bead on …

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  • 24bead — [[t]bi͟ːd[/t]] beads 1) N COUNT: usu pl Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery. ...a string of beads. ...a… …

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  • 25bead — i. A rounded ridge at the end of a tube for carrying fluids into aircraft. ii. The high strength carbon steel wire bundles that give strength and stiffness to aircraft tires. iii. The unwanted ridge of filler metal that sticks up above the… …

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  • 26bead — noun 1》 a small, rounded piece of glass, stone, plastic, etc., perforated and typically threaded in a string with others to make a necklace or rosary. 2》 a drop of a liquid on a surface. 3》 a small knob forming the foresight of a gun. 4》 the… …

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  • 27bead — noun 1) a string of beads Syn: ball, pellet, pill, globule, sphere, spheroid, oval, ovoid, orb, round; (beads) necklace, rosary, chaplet 2) beads of sweat …

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  • 28bead — UK [biːd] / US [bɪd] noun [countable, usually plural] Word forms bead : singular bead plural beads 1) a small usually round piece of plastic, glass, metal etc with a hole through it, that you put on a string or chain with other beads and wear as… …

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  • 29bead — /bid / (say beed) noun 1. a small ball of glass, pearl, wood, etc., with a hole through it, strung with others like it, and used as an ornament or in a rosary. 2. (plural) a necklace. 3. (plural) a rosary. 4. any small globular or cylindrical… …

  • 30bead — perlas statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis Spalvotas žirnelis, gautas lydant metalų junginius su NaBO₂ ar NaPO₃. atitikmenys: angl. bead; weld bead rus. перл; шарик …

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