English-French translations for bead
- grain
- perleC'est un peu comme le jeu de perles: c'est long, alors qu'il serait possible de le réduire sur le plan administratif. This is a sort of Glass Bead Game, which is time-consuming and which administratively can be shortened.
- cordon
- gouttelette
Definition of bead
- Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- ''A ridge, band, or molding.''
- Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose
- 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
- Front sight of a gun.Doesn't this repeat an above sense??? --
- To form into a bead
- To apply beads to
- To form into a bead
- To cause beads to form on (something
Examples
- beads of sweat
- She drew a bead on the target and fired
- We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project
- the borax bead; the iron bead, etc
- The raindrops beaded on the cars waxed finish.
- She spent the morning beading the gown.
- He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
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