bead

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /biːd/ Rhymes: -iːd Homophone: Bede === Noun === bead (plural beads) (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9thc.] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.] Synonym: prayer bead Holonym: prayer beads A small, round object. A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes. [from 15thc.] Various small, round solid objects. A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16thc.] A bubble, in spirits. A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming. (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose. A ridge, band, or molding. A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20thc.] (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section. Synonym: beading (physical chemistry, dated) 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. (woodworking) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. ==== Hyponyms ==== (small, round, pierced object): hair pipe ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded) (intransitive) To form into a bead. (transitive) To apply beads to. (transitive) To form into a bead. (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something). === Anagrams === Abed, abed, adeb, bade, baed == Hungarian == === Etymology === be- +‎ ad === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbɛɒd] Hyphenation: be‧ad Rhymes: -ɒd === Verb === bead (transitive) to hand in beadja a felmondását ― to hand in one's notice (transitive) to give (medicine to someone) (transitive) to submit, to present (a request) (transitive) to file (a petition) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === bead in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. bead in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024). == Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bʲɛd̪ˠ/ === Verb === bead first-person singular future of bí === Mutation === === References === == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bæːɑ̯d/ Rhymes: -ēad === Verb === bēad first/third-person singular preterite indicative of bēodan