Bead vs. Beady

Beadnoun

(archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.

Beadnoun

Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

Beadnoun

A small, round object.

Beadnoun

A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire.

Beadnoun

Various small, round solid objects.

Beadnoun

A small drop of water or other liquid.

Beadnoun

A bubble, in spirits.

Beadnoun

A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.

Beadnoun

(heading) A ridge, band, or molding.

Beadnoun

A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.

Beadnoun

(architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.

Beadnoun

Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

Beadnoun

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.

Beadnoun

Front sight of a gun.

Beadverb

(intransitive) To form into a bead.

Beadverb

(transitive) To apply beads to.

Beadverb

(transitive) To form into a bead.

Beadverb

(transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).

Beadnoun

A prayer.

Beadnoun

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 be at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

Beadnoun

Any small globular body

Beadverb

To ornament with beads or beading.

Beadverb

To form beadlike bubbles.

Beadnoun

a small ball with a hole through the middle

Beadnoun

a shape that is small and round;

Beadnoun

a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

Beadverb

form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

Beadverb

decorate by sewing beads onto;

Beadverb

string together like beads

Bead

A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 millimetre (0.039 in) to over 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in diameter.

Beadyadjective

Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

Beadyadjective

Bright and penetrating.

Beadyadjective

Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.

Beadyadjective

Characterized by beads.

Beadyadjective

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.

Beadyadjective

Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.

Beadyadjective

Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

Beadyadjective

small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button;

Beadyadjective

covered with beads or jewels or sequins