Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - bead
Bead
bead
n. & v. --n. 1 a a small usu. rounded and perforated piece of glass, stone, etc., for threading with others to make jewellery, or sewing on to fabric, etc. b (in pl.) a string of beads; a rosary. 2 a drop of liquid; a bubble. 3 a small knob in the foresight of a gun. 4 the inner edge of a pneumatic tyre that grips the rim of the wheel. 5 Archit. a a moulding like a series of beads. b a narrow moulding with a semicircular cross-section. --v. 1 tr. furnish or decorate with beads. 2 tr. string together. 3 intr. form or grow into beads. Phrases and idioms draw a bead on take aim at. tell one's beads use the beads of a rosary etc. in counting prayers. Derivatives beaded adj. Etymology: orig. = 'prayer' (for which the earliest use of beads arose): OE gebed f. Gmc, rel. to BID
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I. noun see: bid Date: before 12th century 1. prayer, a series of prayers and meditations made with a rosary, a small piece of material pierced for threading on a string or wire (as in a rosary), 3. plural rosary, a necklace of ~s or pearls, a small ball-shaped body: as, a drop of sweat or blood, a bubble formed in or on a beverage, a small metal knob on a firearm used as a front sight, a blob or a line of weld metal, a projecting rim, band, or molding, a precise knowledge or understanding, II. verb Date: 1577 transitive verb to furnish, adorn, or cover with ~s or ~ing, to string together like ~s, intransitive verb to form into a ~, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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