Bead

[biːd] or [bid]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a small ball with a hole through the middle.

(verb.) string together like beads.

(verb.) decorate by sewing beads onto; 'bead the wedding gown'.

(verb.) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example.

整理:塔尼娅--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A prayer.

(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

(n.) Any small globular body

(n.) A bubble in spirits.

(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.

(n.) 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; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

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解釋/意思:

n. a little ball pierced for stringing a series of which forms the rosary or paternoster used in counting the prayers recited: any small ball of glass amber &c. strung in a series to form a necklace: a bead-like drop: the small knob of metal forming the front-sight of a gun—whence the Americanism To draw a bead upon = to take aim at: (archit.) a narrow moulding with semicircular section.—v.t. to furnish with beads.—v.i. to form a bead or beads.—adj. Bead′ed furnished with beads.—ns. Bead′-house a house for poor people who were required to pray for the soul of the founder: an almshouse; Bead′ing a moulding in imitation of beads.—adj. Bead′-proof of such proof or strength as to carry beads or bubbles when shaken as alcoholic liquors.—ns. Bead′-roll in pre-Reformation times a roll or list of the dead to be prayed for hence a list of names a long series: a rosary; Beads′man Bedes′man one employed to pray for others or one endowed to do so: (Scot.) a public alms-man or licensed beggar:—fem. Beads′woman.—adj. Bead′y bead-like small and bright (of eyes): covered with beads or bubbles.—To say tell count one's beads to offer a prayer.

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