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bead
[ beed ]
/ bid /
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Definition of bead
noun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
to form beads; form in beads or drops: perspiration beading on his forehead.
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Idioms about bead
count / say / 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 / get a bead on, to take careful aim at: The marksman drew a bead on his target.
Origin of bead
before 900; Middle English bede prayer, prayer bead (where, on a rosary each bead symbolizes a prayer, the word for the notion symbolized was transferred to the designating object), Old English gebed prayer; akin to bid1, German Gebet
OTHER WORDS FROM bead
beadlike, adjectiveWords nearby bead
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British Dictionary definitions for bead
bead
/ (biËd) /
noun
verb
(tr) to decorate with beads
to form into beads or drops
Derived forms of bead
beaded, adjectiveWord Origin for bead
Old English bed prayer; related to Old High German gibet prayer
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Other Idioms and Phrases with bead
bead
see draw a bead on.
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