Beads

Definition: Beads

Beads

Noun

1. Beads threaded on a string.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beads" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Chemical Industry

Dream Interpretation

Industry

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Beads

Rite

Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion.

Relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax, pyx, agnus Dei, censer, thurible, patera; eileton, Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal, urceus.

Worship

Pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, beseech; (ask); say one's prayers, tell one's beads.

Crosswords: Beads

Tibetan pray beads. (The Glimmer Man; writing credit: Kevin Brodbin)

Okay, prayer beads, 'God, please give me a sign (Bruce Almighty; writing credit: Steve Koren; Mark O'Keefe)

Oh, well, the night is long the beads of time pass slow, (The battle of evermore; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streamin' beads of light, (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

I remember the stupid things, the mood rings, the bracelets and the beads (Never Let You Go; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

A String of Beads (1961)

The Birds & the Beads (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Glass Beads and Microspheres Less Than 1 mm Including Imitation Pearls and Precious Stones, Glass Eyes (Not Prosthetic), Ornaments of Lamp-Worked Glass, and Glass Microspheres Less Than 1 mm: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• A String and a Prayer: How to Make and Use Prayer Beads (reference)

• Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry (reference)

• Creative Bead Jewelry: Weaving, Looming, Stringing, Wiring, Making Beads (reference)

• Creative Glass: Decorating Glass With Wire, Beads, and Mosaic (reference)

• Rosary: Mysteries, Meditations, and the Telling of the Beads (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Bead Movement: The Story of Beads and the People Who Love Them (reference)

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Music

• Baubles, Bangles and Beads (reference)

• Christmas and the Beads of Sweat (reference)

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High Tech

• APC 6FT Sun Monitor 13W3M/13W3M W/Ferrite Beads (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Emjoi AP-25R Airoma Replacement Beads (reference)

• Goldblatt Trowel Trade Tools 15810 Corner Clincher and Mallet for 1-1/4" x 1-1/4" Beads (reference)

• Fetco International Baby Beads Six Opening Screen Collage (Primary) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Four people in Slavic costume, woman giving another beads. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bronze relief plaque dating from the 16th century A.D., depicting a nobleman with his high "choker" of coral beads and two attendants, from the Kingdom of Benin, S. Nigeria. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Black beads hung between the breasts are good for heart trouble. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The prioress counted a few beads on her chaplet

They sat together in class, knelt together in the chapel, talked together after beads over their lunches

Grape blossoms shed their tiny petals and the hard little beads become green buttons, and the buttons grow heavy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Every human cell has from 50,000 to 100,000 genes arranged like beads on a string (chromosome). (references)

Business

Fashion accessories such as necklaces, bracelets and hair pins are made with Swarovski crystal beads. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

In the northern cities of Kano and Katsina, recorded history dates back to approximately 1000 AD. In the centuries that followed, these Hausa kingdoms and the Bomu empire near Lake Chad prospered as important terminals of north-south trade between North African Berbers and forest people who exchanged slaves, ivory, and kola nuts for salt, glass beads, coral, cloth, weapons, brass rods, and cowrie shells used as currency. (references)

Travel

Chad

One can find restaurants, bars, food products, carpets, woven mats, hardware, fabric, jewelry, African artisan goods, wool rugs, beads, leather products, and wood carvings. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "beads": Baily's beads ♦ beads of sweat ♦ coral beads ♦ count one's beads ♦ prayer beads ♦ Saint Cuthbert's beads ♦ say one's beads ♦ string of beads ♦ tell one's beads ♦ thread beads ♦ to be at one's beads ♦ To bid beads ♦ worry beads. Additional references.

Ending with "beads": blood-beads, mummy-beads, patience-beads, prayer-beads, praying-beads, star-beads, worry-beads.

Albanian

tespihe (chaplet, paternoster, rosaries, rosary), tepsije. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسبحة (rosary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

огърлица (chaplet, choker, necklace, necklet), наниз (concatenation, rope, strand, string). (various references)

Chinese 

小珠 (Bead). (various references)

Czech

korále. (various references)

Danish

perler (bead, node, nodule, pearl, pearls, purls), granulat (granules). (various references)

Dutch

parel (pearl), kleine maalkogel, granulaat (granula pesticide, granulate, granule, granules, pellets). (various references)

Finnish

helminauha (pearl necklace, string of pearls), helmi (head, pearl), granulaatti (granulate, pellets). (various references)

French

bille, perle (bead), pétiller, globule, collier (beadwork), chapelet. (various references)

German

rosenkranz (rosary), perlenschnur (string of beads), Perlen (bubble, effervesce, fizz, pearlies, pearls, roll, sparkle, trickle), Perle (bead, bubble, drop, droplet, gem, Pearl), Kügelschen, Granülat. (various references)

Greek 

σφαιρίδια (shot), σταγόνες (drops), περιδέραιο (necklace). (various references)

Hungarian

rózsafüzér (rosary), olvasó (reader, readership, reading, rosary). (various references)

Indonesian

bertasbih (tell one's beads). (various references)

Italian

spumare, orazioni. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ヒンディー語 (beach, beach coat, beach house, beach parasol, beach umbrella, beach volleyball, beach wear, beacon, beagle, beaker, beam, beam antenna, beam rider, beast, beat, beat generation, Beatles, beaver, bee, beef, beefalo, beefsteak, beep, beer, beet, Hindi, Hindustan, hint, Venus, virus, viva). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ビーズ . (various references)

Korean 

구슬 (Bead). (various references)

Manx

cur er snaie (thread as beads), braslaid (string of beads). (various references)

Papago

koawgith (to string beads), koawgi'a (string of beads). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadsbay.(various references)

Portuguese

granulado (grainy, granular, granulated), esférulas, colar (affix, attach, bind, bung, chain, collate, crib, glue, gum, paste, stick). (various references)

Romanian

mãtanie (genuflexion). (various references)

Romany

miriklè (necklace). (various references)

Russian 

бисер. (various references)

Scottish

pleasg (a noise, a string of beads). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

perle brojanice, niska (string). (various references)

Shona

-tunga chuma (to string beads). (various references)

Spanish

perlas. (various references)

Swazi

bú-hlâlu. (various references)

Swedish

pärlhalsband. (various references)

Turkish

tespih (prayer beads, rosary). (various references)

Turkmen 

monjuk (necklace), hьnji. (various references)

Ukrainian

читати молитви, перебираючи чотки (tell one's beads). (various references)

Welsh

paderau. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "beads": beadsman, beadsmen. (additional references)

Words ending with "beads": jetbeads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Beads" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baaad, badass, Badds, bads, Bcefaddb, beade, beda, Bedad, bedae, bedai, bedap, bedes, beeds, beid, beod, Biado, bidaz, ebadd, ebas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: based, sabed.

-1 letter: abed, bade, bads, base, bead, beds, dabs, debs, sabe, sade.

-2 letters: abs, ads, bad, bas, bed, dab, deb, eds, sab, sad, sae, sea.

-3 letters: ab, ad, ae, as, ba, be, de, ed, es.

+1 letter: abased, abides, abodes, abused, adobes, ardebs, badges, bardes, bashed, basked, basted, beards, biased, blades, breads, daubes, debars, debase, sabbed, sabred, seabed, serdab.

+2 letters: abashed, abduces, abiders, abrades, adverbs, albedos, aubades, baddest, baddies, badgers, badness, baldest, baldies, banders, bandies, basined, bawdies, beadles, bedamns, bedaubs, bedfast, bedlams, bedpans, beglads, beheads, belauds, beldams, bendays, bestead, biassed, blasted, boasted, bodegas, braised, brassed, dabbers, dabbles, dabster, darbies, daubers, daybeds, debarks, debased, debaser, debases, debates, debeaks, diabase, disable, redbays, sabered, sambaed, scabbed, seabeds, seabird, serdabs, sidebar, slabbed, stabbed, stabled, subdean, subhead, subidea, swabbed, unbased.