• Noun

    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.
    beads,
    a necklace of beads
    You don't have your beads on this evening.
    a rosary.
    Obsolete . devotions; prayers.
    any small globular or cylindrical body.
    a drop of liquid
    beads of moisture.
    a bubble rising through effervescent liquid.
    Usually, beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid.
    the front sight of a rifle or gun.
    a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel.
    Electricity . a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable.
    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.
    Metallurgy . the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation.
    Architecture, Furniture . a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal.
    Welding . a continuous deposit of fused metal, either straight (stringer bead) or zigzag (weave bead).

    Verb (used with object)

    to form or cause to form beads or a bead on.
    to ornament with beads.
    Carpentry . to form a bead on (a piece).

    Verb (used without object)

    to form beads; form in beads or drops
    perspiration beading on his forehead.

    Idioms

    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.
    draw or get a bead on
    to take careful aim at
    The marksman drew a bead on his target.

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