Meaning of Bead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
   archaic
2. Acronym of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
3. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
4. A small, round object.
5. A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
6. Various small, round solid objects.
7. A small drop of water or other liquid.
8. A bubble, in spirits.
9. A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
10. Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
    broadly
11. A ridge, band, or molding.
12. A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
13. A narrow molding with semicircular section.
14. 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.
    dated, physical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Holonym: prayer beads”

“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.”

“beads of sweat”

“She drew a bead on the target and fired.”

“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.”

“We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project”

“the borax bead;  the iron bead, etc.”

“The language fails to specify whether states that accept the funding for AI infrastructure could risk losing their original BEAD allotments if found out of compliance, it fails to address the broad and vague definitions of covered technologies, and it fails to address the sole problem it sought to address: the so-called patchwork of state laws.”

CEFR level