Bead - English meaning

noun

A solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game.

Usage examples:

A cricket ball

verb

(in cricket) a delivery of the ball by the bowler to the batsman.

Usage examples:

His half century came off only forty balls

noun

A formal social gathering for dancing.

Usage examples:

Anne danced with the captain at a fancy-dress ball

noun

A drop of a thick liquid or viscous substance.

Usage examples:

Blobs of paint

verb

Put small drops of thick liquid or spots of colour on.

Usage examples:

Her nose was blobbed with paint

noun

A collection of data in binary form, typically a multimedia item, stored as a single entity in a database management system.

noun

A thin sphere of liquid enclosing air or another gas.

Usage examples:

We'd shake up a piece of soap in a tin of warm water and blow bubbles

verb

(of a liquid) form rising bubbles of gas or air.

Usage examples:

A pot of coffee bubbled away on the stove

noun

A ball of air in a liquid or on its surface, or in the air

Usage examples:

When water begins to boil, small bubbles form around the edge of the pot., the water in the pot beg…

noun

A drop of dew.

Usage examples:

‘she must run into the fields and collect the dewdrops for us,’ said the adviser.

noun

A drop of dew

noun

A small round mark or spot.

Usage examples:

A symbol depicted in coloured dots

verb

Mark with a small spot or spots.

Usage examples:

Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt

noun

A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.

verb

Let or make (something) fall vertically.

Usage examples:

The fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette

noun

A small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.

Usage examples:

The first drops of rain splashed on the ground

verb

Let fall to the ground

noun

A very small drop of a liquid.

Usage examples:

Droplets of water

noun

A very small drop of a liquid

noun

A small drop of liquid

noun

A lump of a semi-liquid substance.

Usage examples:

Thick globs of mozzarella cheese

noun

A small round particle of a substance; a drop.

Usage examples:

Globules of fat

noun

A small ball of something, especially a drop of liquid

Usage examples:

The disease is caused by globules of fat blocking the blood vessels.

noun

An ornamental chain or string of beads, jewels, or links worn round the neck.

Usage examples:

A diamond necklace

verb

(in south africa) kill (someone) with a tyre necklace.

Usage examples:

The angry residents, definitely frustrated with the law enforcement approach to their distress call…

noun

A spherical object or shape.

Usage examples:

A pale orb of hazy reddish light

adjective

Having a rounded and slightly elongated outline or shape like that of an egg.

Usage examples:

Her smooth oval face

noun

A body, object, or design with an oval shape or outline.

Usage examples:

Cut out two small ovals from the felt

adjective

(of a solid or a three-dimensional surface) more or less egg-shaped.

Usage examples:

Three flowerpots rest on an ovoid surface, perhaps a ceramic tray or table top whose legs have vani…

noun

An ovoid body or surface.

Usage examples:

And the ovoids, too small to hold the molecules needed to carry out the chemical reactions of life,…

adjective

Having the same shape as an egg, or of a similar shape

Usage examples:

The egg is ovoid and yellowish, with a thick shell., the ovoid seed pods burst when ripe., a melon …

noun

A hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-grey, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusc and highly prized as a gem.

Usage examples:

A linen garment decorated with pearls

verb

Form drops resembling pearls.

Usage examples:

Raindrops pearled on water-soaked windowpanes

noun

Another term for picot.

noun

A small, rounded, compressed mass of a substance.

Usage examples:

Fish food pellets

verb

Form (a substance) into pellets.

Usage examples:

The business made its name pelleting sugar beet seed

noun

A small, hard, ball-shaped or tube-shaped piece of any substance

Usage examples:

Shotgun pellets, plastic pellets

noun

A small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole.

Usage examples:

An overdose of sleeping pills

verb

(of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface.

Usage examples:

Synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well

noun

(in the roman catholic church) a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of hail marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an our father and followed by a glory be.

Usage examples:

Isabella felt so blessed by god that she offered two novenas, three rosaries and gave more donation…

noun

A series of prayers said by roman catholics, or a string of beads (= little balls) used to count prayers

adjective

Shaped like a circle or cylinder.

Usage examples:

She was seated at a small, round table

noun

A circular piece of something.

Usage examples:

Cut the pastry into rounds

adverb

So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.

Usage examples:

A plane circled round overhead

noun

A round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

Usage examples:

There's a particularly good 3d objects tool, which lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectang…

verb

Enclose in or as if in a sphere.

Usage examples:

Mourners, sphered by their dark garb

combining form

Denoting a structure or region of spherical form, especially a region round the earth.

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Ionosphere

noun

A sphere-like but not perfectly spherical body.

Usage examples:

A remarkable feature of oligoamine-condensed dna is the ability to assume condition-defined morphol…

noun

A small sphere.

Usage examples:

The impact record would be preserved in spherules - microscopic glass beads formed when droplets of…

noun

A single tear.

Usage examples:

Excess tears are shed as teardrops or escape into the nasal passages.