bead
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic)Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
- 2.
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
Holonym: prayer beads
Đồng nghĩa: prayer bead
- 3.
A small, round object.
- 4.
A ridge, band, or molding.
- 5.
(dated, physical)(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.
the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
- 6.
(woodworking) A decorative, convex, rounded profile (often a half-circle) cut into an edge or surface of wood, typically defined by a narrow, deep channel called a quirk.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To form into a bead.
The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
- 2.
(transitive)To apply beads to.
She spent the morning beading the gown.
- 3.
(transitive)To cause beads to form on (something).
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ine-pro From Middle English bede (a prayer), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes, from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (a request, entreaty, prayer), from *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.