Home > Synonyms > Synonyms for bead

Synonyms for bead

Grammar : Noun
Spell : beed
Phonetic Transcription : bid

Top 10 synonyms for bead
Other synonyms for the word bead

Définition of bead

Origin :
  • mid-14c., bede "prayer bead," from Old English gebed "prayer," with intensive or collective prefix *ge- + Proto-Germanic *bidjan "to pray, entreat" (cf. Middle Dutch bede, Old High German beta, German bitte, Gothic bida "prayer, request"), from PIE *gwhedh- "to ask, pray." Shift in meaning came via beads threaded on a string to count prayers, and in phrases like to bid one's beads, to count one's beads. German cognate Bitte is the usual word for conversational request "please." Also related to bid (Old English biddan) and Gothic bidjan "to ask, pray." Sense transferred to "drop of liquid" 1590s; to "small knob forming front sight of a gun" 1831 (Kentucky slang); hence draw a bead on "take aim at," 1841, U.S. colloquial.
  • noun droplet, blob
Example sentences :
  • Then I saw a bead of sweat trickle down his forehead, and I knew that he was beaten.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Down here a man could line the notch of his hindsight with the bead.
  • Extract from : « When the West Was Young » by Frederick R. Bechdolt
  • Then in the next row, net a plain and a bead stitch successively.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • Net the third row plain, and begin the next with a bead stitch.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • Where you had previously raised, you must narrow with the bead you have upon the silk.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • This will, of course, place a bead in the centre of each square.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • I had a fellow up there who had a bead drawn on him all the time, and only waited for a sign from me.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • As he sat with his bead leaning on both hands, the door opened.
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • Then while it is still melted, shake the bead out of the loop on to a clean plate.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • There is always some stray silver in the bead bag of a movie patron.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019