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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, ?ebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-Germanic *bed?, *bed?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
Noun
bead (plural beads)
- (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9thc.]
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p.115:
- 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.
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p.115:
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]
- A small, round object.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire. [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.
- (heading) 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.
- Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- (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.
- Front sight of a gun.
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.
- The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
- (transitive) To apply beads to.
- She spent the morning beading the gown.
- (transitive) To form into a bead.
- He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
- (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Greenville," [1]
- Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Greenville," [1]
Anagrams
- Abed, abed, adeb, bade, baed
Hungarian
Etymology
be- +? ad
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b??d]
- Hyphenation: be?ad
- Rhymes: -?d
Verb
bead
- (transitive) to hand in
- (transitive) to give (medicine to someone)
- (transitive) to submit, to present (a request)
- (transitive) to file (a petition)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- beadás
- beadvány
(Expressions):
- beadja a derekát
- beadja a kulcsot
Irish
Verb
bead
- first-person singular future of bí
Mutation
Further reading
- "bead" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæ???d/
Verb
b?ad
- first/third-person singular preterite indicative of b?odan
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pebble
English
Etymology
From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel (found in Old English popelst?n, papolst?n (“pebble-stone”), pyppelr?pi? (“pebble-stream”)), of unknown origin. Compare Albanian popël.(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?b.?l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
pebble (countable and uncountable, plural pebbles)
- A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
- Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
Fillip the stars;
- Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
- And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
- And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
- (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
- Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
- Brazilian pebble
- A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
- Synonyms: cube powder, prismatic powder
Translations
Verb
pebble (third-person singular simple present pebbles, present participle pebbling, simple past and past participle pebbled)
- (transitive) To pave with pebbles.
- (transitive, curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice.
- to pebble the ice between games
- (transitive) To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
- (transitive, graph theory) To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.
Translations
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