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- [beed]
- /bid/
- /biːd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [beed]
- /bid/
Definitions of bead word
- countable noun bead Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery. 3
- countable noun bead A bead of liquid or moisture is a small drop of it. 3
- noun bead a small usually spherical piece of glass, wood, plastic, etc, with a hole through it by means of which it may be strung with others to form a necklace, etc 3
- noun bead a small drop of moisture 3
- noun bead a small bubble in or on a liquid 3
- noun bead a small metallic knob acting as the sight of a firearm 3
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Origin of bead
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
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
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Parts of speech for Bead
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
bead popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bead usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bead
noun bead
- stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- pellet — a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
- dot — a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.
- shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- speck — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
verb bead
- beading — Beading is a narrow strip of wood that is used for decorating or edging furniture and doors.
- beaded — A beaded dress, cushion, or other object is decorated with beads.
- snowed — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
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