bead

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
    — Holonym: prayer beads
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. A small, round object.; A small drop of water or other liquid.
    — beads of sweat
  6. A small, round object.; A bubble, in spirits.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. A ridge, band, or molding.; A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
  10. A ridge, band, or molding.; A narrow molding with semicircular section.
  11. 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.
  12. A decorative, convex, rounded profile (often a half-circle) cut into an edge or surface of wood, typically defined by a narrow, deep channel called a quirk.
动词 v.
  1. To form into a bead. intransitive
    — The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
  2. To apply beads to. transitive
    — She spent the morning beading the gown.
  3. To form into a bead. transitive
    — He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
  4. 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.

词形变化

beads plural beads present,singular,third-person beading participle,present beaded participle,past beaded past

词汇关系

下位词
hair pipe
衍生词
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词源

词源 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”).
词源 2
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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