Bead Definition–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. | | 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. | |
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