bead

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 Anagrams 2 Hungarian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Verb 2.4 See also 3 Irish 3.1 Verb form 3.1.1 Related terms 3.1.2 Mutation 4 Old English 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Verb form

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English ġebed, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch bede, German Gebet.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bi:d/
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  Rhymes: -iːd

[edit] Noun

bead (plural beads)

1. (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9th c.]
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 115:

     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. [from 14th c.]
3. A small round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire. [from 15th c.]
4. A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16th c.]

   beads of sweat

5. A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20th c.]

[edit] Derived terms

• anal beads

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded)

1. (intransitive) To form into a bead.

   The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.

2. (transitive) To apply beads to.

   She spent the morning beading the gown.

3. (transitive) To form into a bead.

   He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: abde
• abed
• bade
• baed

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

be- + ad

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛɒd/
• Hyphenation: be‧ad

[edit] Verb

bead

1. hand in

[edit] See also

• beadja a kulcsot

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Verb form

bead

1. (nonstandard) 1st person sing. future of bí.

   I will be

[edit] Related terms

• beidh (synthetic)
• beir (2d person sing. synthetic, nonstandard)
• beimid (1st person pl. synthetic)
• beid (3d person pl. synthetc, nonstandard)
• beifear (autonomous)

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bead	bhead	mbead
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bæ:ad/

[edit] Verb form

bēad

1. first- and third-person singular preterite of bēodan