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Bead

//biːd// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
Acronym of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
"The language fails to specify whether states that accept the funding for AI infrastructure could risk losing their original BEAD allotments if found out of compliance, it fails to address the broad and vague definitions of covered technologies, and it fails to address the sole problem it sought to address: the so-called patchwork of state laws."

Noun

1
Prayer, later especially with a rosary. archaic
"That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven."
2
a small ball with a hole through the middle wordnet
3
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
"Holonym: prayer beads"
4
a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture wordnet
5
A small, round object.; A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.

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a shape that is spherical and small wordnet
7
A small, round object.; Various small, round solid objects.
"Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads."
8
A small, round object.; A small drop of water or other liquid.
"beads of sweat"
9
A small, round object.; A bubble, in spirits.
10
A small, round object.; A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
"She drew a bead on the target and fired."
11
A small, round object.; A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.; Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose. broadly
"We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project"
12
A ridge, band, or molding.; A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
13
A ridge, band, or molding.; A narrow molding with semicircular section.
14
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. dated, physical
"the borax bead; the iron bead, etc."

Verb

1
To form into a bead. intransitive
"The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish."
2
string together like beads wordnet
3
To apply beads to. transitive
"She spent the morning beading the gown."
4
decorate by sewing beads onto wordnet
5
To form into a bead. transitive
"He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire."

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form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example wordnet
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To cause beads to form on (something). transitive
"Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).

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