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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bead (plural beads)
- (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9thc.]
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 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.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]
- 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. [from 15thc.]
- Various small, round solid objects.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- 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.
- A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16thc.]
- beads of sweat
- A bubble, in spirits.
- 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.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project
- A ridge, band, or molding.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20thc.]
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- Synonym: beading
- (physical chemistry, dated) 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.
- the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (small, round, pierced object): hair pipe
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from bead (noun)
- adder bead
- anal beads
- angle bead
- Baily's beads
- beadboard
- bead breaker
- beaded lacewing
- beaded lizard
- beader
- beadery
- bead fern
- beadful
- beadless
- beadlet
- bead lightning
- beadlike
- bead lily
- beadmaker
- beadmaking
- bead maze
- bead proof
- bead-rattler
- beadroll
- bead seat
- beadsman
- bead-tree
- bead tree
- beadwork
- beady
- bedeman
- bid beads
- borax bead test
- captive bead ring
- casing bead
- draw a bead on
- drop one's beads
- drop one's beads
- dzi bead
- fairy-beads
- Hail Mary bead
- immunobead
- iodobead
- jet bead
- jetbead
- jumbie bead
- love-bead
- love bead
- lovebead
- macrobead
- microbead
- multibead
- nanobead
- parting bead
- polybead
- pony bead
- prayer bead
- prayer beads
- read someone's beads
- seed bead
- St. Cuthbert's beads
- sticky bead argument
- stop bead
- string of beads
- take a bead on
- tyre bead
- water bead
- worry beads
Translations
[edit]rosary ball
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small, round, pierced object
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small drop of liquid
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ridge, band, moulding
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Verb
[edit]bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded)
- (intransitive) To form into a bead.
- The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
- (transitive) To apply beads to.
- She spent the morning beading the gown.
- (transitive) To form into a bead.
- He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
- (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
- 1941, Emily Carr, “Greenville”, in Klee Wyck:
- Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it.
Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bead
- (transitive) to hand in
- beadja a felmondását ― to hand in one's notice
- (transitive) to give (medicine to someone)
- (transitive) to submit, to present (a request)
- (transitive) to file (a petition)
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of bead
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | beadok | beadsz | bead | beadunk | beadtok | beadnak | |
Def. | beadom | beadod | beadja | beadjuk | beadjátok | beadják | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadlak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | beadtam | beadtál | beadott | beadtunk | beadtatok | beadtak | ||
Def. | beadtam | beadtad | beadta | beadtuk | beadtátok | beadták | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadtalak | ― | |||||||
Future | Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. be fog adni. | ||||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | beadék | beadál | beada | beadánk | beadátok | beadának | ||
Def. | beadám | beadád | beadá | beadánk | beadátok | beadák | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadálak | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. bead vala, beadott vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | beadandok | beadandasz | beadand | beadandunk | beadandotok | beadandanak | ||
Def. | beadandom | beadandod | beadandja | beadandjuk | beadandjátok | beadandják | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadandalak | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | beadnék | beadnál | beadna | beadnánk | beadnátok | beadnának | |
Def. | beadnám | beadnád | beadná | beadnánk (or beadnók) |
beadnátok | beadnák | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadnálak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. beadott volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | beadjak | beadj or beadjál |
beadjon | beadjunk | beadjatok | beadjanak | |
Def. | beadjam | beadd or beadjad |
beadja | beadjuk | beadjátok | beadják | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadjalak | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. beadott légyen | ||||||||
Infinitive | beadni | beadnom | beadnod | beadnia | beadnunk | beadnotok | beadniuk | ||
Other forms |
Verbal noun | Present part. | Past part. | Future part. | Adverbial participle | Causative | |||
beadás | beadó | beadott | beadandó | beadva (beadván) | beadat | ||||
The archaic passive conjugation had the same -(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by -ik in the 3rd-person singular (and the concomitant changes in conditional and subjunctive mostly in the 1st- and 3rd-person singular like with other traditional -ik verbs). | |||||||||
The prefix can split from the verb stem, e.g. nem ad be or be is ad. |
potential conjugation of bead
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | beadhatok | beadhatsz | beadhat | beadhatunk | beadhattok | beadhatnak | |
Def. | beadhatom | beadhatod | beadhatja | beadhatjuk | beadhatjátok | beadhatják | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadhatlak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | beadhattam | beadhattál | beadhatott | beadhattunk | beadhattatok | beadhattak | ||
Def. | beadhattam | beadhattad | beadhatta | beadhattuk | beadhattátok | beadhatták | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadhattalak | ― | |||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | beadhaték | beadhatál | beadhata | beadhatánk | beadhatátok | beadhatának | ||
Def. | beadhatám | beadhatád | beadhatá | beadhatánk | beadhatátok | beadhaták | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadhatálak | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala, e.g. beadhat vala, beadhatott vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | beadhatandok or beadandhatok |
beadhatandasz or beadandhatsz |
beadhatand or beadandhat |
beadhatandunk or beadandhatunk |
beadhatandotok or beadandhattok |
beadhatandanak or beadandhatnak | ||
Def. | beadhatandom or beadandhatom |
beadhatandod or beadandhatod |
beadhatandja or beadandhatja |
beadhatandjuk or beadandhatjuk |
beadhatandjátok or beadandhatjátok |
beadhatandják or beadandhatják | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadhatandalak or beadandhatlak |
― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | beadhatnék | beadhatnál | beadhatna | beadhatnánk | beadhatnátok | beadhatnának | |
Def. | beadhatnám | beadhatnád | beadhatná | beadhatnánk (or beadhatnók) |
beadhatnátok | beadhatnák | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadhatnálak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. beadhatott volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | beadhassak | beadhass or beadhassál |
beadhasson | beadhassunk | beadhassatok | beadhassanak | |
Def. | beadhassam | beadhasd or beadhassad |
beadhassa | beadhassuk | beadhassátok | beadhassák | |||
2nd-p. o. | beadhassalak | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. beadhatott légyen | ||||||||
Inf. | (beadhatni) | (beadhatnom) | (beadhatnod) | (beadhatnia) | (beadhatnunk) | (beadhatnotok) | (beadhatniuk) | ||
Positive adjective | beadható | Neg. adj. | beadhatatlan | Adv. part. | (beadhatva / beadhatván) | ||||
The prefix can split from the verb stem, e.g. nem adhat be or be is adhat. |
Derived terms
[edit]Expressions
Further reading
[edit]- bead in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bead in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bead
- first-person singular future of bí
- Bead anseo nuair a thiocfaidh tú ar ais.
- I will be here when you come back.
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bead | bhead | mbead |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 74
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bēad
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