Pearl vs. Bead

Pearlnoun

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

Pearlnoun

(figuratively) Something precious.

Pearlnoun

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.

Pearlnoun

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

Pearlnoun

A whitish speck or film on the eye.

Pearlnoun

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

Pearlnoun

A light-colored tern.

Pearlnoun

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

Pearlnoun

The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.

Pearlnoun

A fringe or border.

Pearlnoun

(obsolete) A jewel or gem.

Pearlnoun

The clitoris.

Pearlverb

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

Pearlverb

(transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.

Pearlverb

(transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.

Pearlverb

(intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.

Pearlverb

(intransitive) To hunt for pearls

Pearlverb

to dig the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.

Pearlnoun

A fringe or border.

Pearlnoun

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

Pearlnoun

Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.

Pearlnoun

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

Pearlnoun

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

Pearlnoun

A light-colored tern.

Pearlnoun

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

Pearlnoun

A whitish speck or film on the eye.

Pearlnoun

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

Pearlnoun

A size of type, between agate and diamond.

Pearladjective

Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.

Pearlverb

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.

Pearlverb

To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.

Pearlverb

To resemble pearl or pearls.

Pearlverb

To dive or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.

Pearlnoun

a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel

Pearlnoun

a shade of white the color of bleached bones

Pearlnoun

a shape that is small and round;

Pearlverb

gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean

Pearlnoun

a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-grey, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusc and highly prized as a gem

Pearlnoun

an artificial imitation of a pearl.

Pearlnoun

a necklace of pearls

Pearlnoun

something resembling a pearl

Pearlnoun

short for mother-of-pearl

Pearlnoun

a very pale bluish grey or white colour like that of a pearl

Pearlnoun

a person or thing of great worth

Pearlnoun

another term for picot

Pearlverb

form drops resembling pearls

Pearlverb

make bluish-grey

Pearlverb

dive or fish for pearl oysters

Pearl

A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) in minute crystalline form, which has deposited in concentric layers.

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.