English-Spanish translations for bead

• cuenta
• abalorio
  Para él, es un juego de abalorios de la elite política, un mirarse el ombligo de las instituciones europeas; una expresión del señor Blair de la que deja caer continuas variaciones. For him, it is a glass bead game for political elites, institutional European navel-gazing – a phrase from Mr Blair, variations of which he continually drops in.
• gota

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.

Related words

• beadle
• beads
• beading
• beaded
• microbead
• Beadlam
• Beadnell
• bead tree
• beaded lizard