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Beading

Definitions: Beading

Beading

Noun

1. Ornamentation with beads.

2. A beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture.

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

Date "beading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Beading

DomainDefinitions

Chemical Industry

A coating is said to bead when it shows heavy excessive flowing to the lower edge of a vertical surface. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

The production of an outward(beading)or inward(necking-in)channel in the wall of a hollow component by the operation of shaped matching rolls. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Beading

Synonyms: astragal (n), bead (n), beadwork (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Beading

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Beading

English words defined with "beading": bead and quirk, Bead tool, beading planequirk, quirk beadreticule. (references)
Specialty definitions using "beading": asbestos bodyBEADING SAWYER, BEAD-MACHINE OPERATOR, BEADWORKER, burring-machine operatorextreme breadthmaximum beam, MULTI-OPERATION-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR Ioverall breadthsweatband drummerWEATHERSTRIP-MACHINE OPERATOR, windlace-machine operator. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Beading

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bead Girl: 25 Sparkly Beading Projects, from Toe Rings to Tiaras (reference)

  • Beading for the First Time (reference)

  • Beading in the Native American Tradition (reference)

  • Beading on a Loom (Beadwork How-To) (reference)

  • Beading With Herringbone Stitch: A Beadwork How-To Book (Beadwork How-To-Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Beading

Illustrations:
Beading

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Photo Album: Beading

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Fitting beading to upper of boot in bootmaking shop. Alpine, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Crimping beading by hand to fit uppers of boots in boot shop. Alpine, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cementing beading to upper, cowboy boot shop. Alpine, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Usage Frequency: Beading

"Beading" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.08% of the time. "Beading" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)73.08%1980,337
Lexical Verb (-ing form)26.92%7133,076
                    Total100.00%26N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Beading

Expression using "beading": beading plane. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "beading": scatter-beading.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beading

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

beading

715

beading supply

376

beading pattern

160

beading loom

48

beading man

33

beading project

33

beading instructions

30

beading craft

28

beading instruction

27

beading technique

26

beading jewelry

25

beading tool

22

beading free project

22

beading wire

19

beading book

18

beading kit

17

beading on fabric

15

glass beading

15

native american beading

15

beading tutorial

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Beading

Language Translations for "beading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

成串 状. (various references)

   

Danish

  

valsesikning (necking-in), svejsning af en streng, løbning (mating, running). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

traanvorming, rilrollen (necking-in), lasrups (bead). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rullavaotus (necking-in), reunan taivutus (bending), palteitus (necking-in), käyryys (bend, bending, bow). (various references)

   

French

  

sertissage (bending), roulage des bords (bending), rainurage, nervurage (belchering), dépôt d'un cordon de soudure. (various references)

   

German

  

Bördeln (bead, bending), Wulsten, Walzsicken (necking-in), Sicken, Rollsicken (necking-in), perlstickerei, perlstab, perlschnur, Falzen (crimp sealing, crimping, fold, insetting, lock seaming, rabbet, seaming, shave), Ablaufkante. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσκευή αναδίπλωσησ, συγκόλληση με παράλληλες λωρίδες, σταγόνιασμα, πλαισίωση (coaming, framing, jamb, surround), πτύχωση μέσω κυλινδρικών ελάστρων (necking-in), αναδίπλωση των άκρων (bending). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyöngydíszítés (bead). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bordatura (banding, bending, coaming, edging, framing, jamb, lipping, railing, scallop, surround, trimming, trinning), piegatura (bend, bending, defect, fold, folding, kink, plication), cordonatura (crease, fasciation, grooving, raised band, score, scoring). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

구슬로 장식. (various references)

   

Manx

  

beedyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadingbay

   

Portuguese

  

rebordos (bending), escorridos (curtaining, run, running, sag, sagging, slopping over). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ornamentaţie din mãrgele, ciubuc (boodle, chibouk, gain, gravy, hookah, list, molding, moulding, ogee, racket, rake off, tip). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nizanje perli. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rebordeado (bending), reborde (bead, bulb, flange, ledge, shoulder, upstand, upturn), deposición sin oscilación del electrodo, deposición de un cordón de soldadura, cuentas (accounts), astrágalo (astragal, astragalus), apestañado (bending), acumulación de pintura por deslizamiento al borde inferior. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bockning (bending, bow, camber, folding), rinning (run, running, sag), ensträngsvetsning. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ขอบหรือริมของวัตถุที่ประ"ับ"้วยลูกทรงกลม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

boncuklu kenar süsü, boncuklu kısım, ökçe lâstik kordonu. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вишивання бісером, оздоблення з намиста. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự xâu th nh chuỗi sự đọng lại th nh giọt miếng gỗ d i trên có những hạt tròn, hoa văn hình hạt tròn, đường chạm nổi hình chuỗi hạt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Beading

Derivations

Words beginning with "beading": beadings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Beading" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babandiga, Baoding, beaden, beadling, beaking, Bealin, Bealing, beaning, beeding, Beedings, Beedini, beiden, Betadine, Beydun, Bidein, bioding, blading, boading, bradding, Meading. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Beading

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-n"

-1 letter: banged, binged, gained.

-2 letters: abide, badge, baned, began, begin, being, binge, deign, dinge, gibed.

-3 letters: abed, aged, agin, aide, bade, band, bane, bang, bani, bead, bean, bend, bide, bind, bine, dang, dean, deni, dine, ding, egad, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gane, gibe, gied, gien, idea, nabe, nide.

-4 letters: age, aid, ain, and, ane, ani, bad, bag, ban, bed, beg, ben, bid, big, bin, dab, dag, deb, den, dib, die, dig, din, end, eng, gab, gad, gae, gan, ged, gen, gib, gid, gie, gin, nab, nae, nag, neb, nib.

-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ag, ai, an, ba, be, bi, de, ed, en, id, in, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-n"
 

+1 letter: badinage, beadings, bearding, blindage, breading, debasing, debating.

 

+2 letters: badgering, badinaged, badinages, bargained, bedamning, bedaubing, bedraping, beheading, beladying, belauding, bendaying, blindages, debarking, debarring, debeaking, gabardine, gaberdine.

 

+3 letters: abridgment, bartending, bedabbling, bedazzling, bedwarfing, begladding, beheadings, bemadaming, besteading, brigandage, brigandine, broadening, debauching, gabardines, gaberdines, reboarding, redbaiting, ringbarked, subheading, unabridged.

 

+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, becowarding, bedarkening, bedeafening, bediapering, bedraggling, bemaddening, beshadowing, bespreading, brigandages, brigandines, diagnosable, drumbeating, fingerboard, gingerbread, grandbabies, harbingered, keyboarding, outdebating, subheadings.

 

+5 letters: abridgements, backpedaling, biodegrading, breadwinning, childbearing, debilitating, deliberating, descrambling, diabetogenic, diagnoseable, disembarking, drumbeatings, fingerboards, gingerbreads, gingerbready, outbargained, speedballing, speedboating, unbridgeable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Beading


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 61 64 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    .-    -..    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0061 0064 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36716770758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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