Bead
noun
- 1.
- (rosary, necklace, in bead form, a small rounded molding imitating beads) មុក្ដា, គុជ, តំណក់ថ្លា ornamental bead អង្កាំ, bead of sweat គ្រាប់, ដំណក
verb — past tense: beaded ; past participle: beaded ; present participle: beading ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) មានដំណក់មូលៗ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (Furnish with beads, string together) ដាំអង្កាំ
Example: A bead of dew, a bead of sorrow.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
- 2.
- Any small globular body
- 3.
- A bubble in spirits.
- 4.
- A drop of sweat or other liquid.
- 5.
- A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
- 6.
- A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
- 7.
- 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; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
verb — past tense: beaded ; past participle: beaded ; present participle: beading ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To ornament with beads or beading.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To form beadlike bubbles.
- 1.
- A prayer