different between bead vs clincher

English

Etymology

From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ?ebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-Germanic *bed?, *bed?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

bead (plural beads)

1. (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9^thc.]
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p.115:

     That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.

2. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14^thc.]
3. A small, round object.
   1. A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire. [from 15^thc.]
   2. Various small, round solid objects.
   3. A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16^thc.]

   4. A bubble, in spirits.
   5. A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
4. (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
   1. A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20^thc.]
   2. (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
5. Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

6. (chemistry, dated) 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.

7. Front sight of a gun.

Hyponyms

• (small, round, pierced object): hair pipe

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded)

1. (intransitive) To form into a bead.

   The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.

2. (transitive) To apply beads to.

   She spent the morning beading the gown.

3. (transitive) To form into a bead.

   He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.

4. (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Greenville," [1]

     Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it.

Anagrams

• Abed, abed, adeb, bade, baed

Hungarian

Etymology

be- +? ad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??d]
• Hyphenation: be?ad
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

bead

1. (transitive) to hand in

2. (transitive) to give (medicine to someone)
3. (transitive) to submit, to present (a request)
4. (transitive) to file (a petition)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• beadás
• beadvány

(Expressions):

• beadja a derekát
• beadja a kulcsot

Irish

Verb

bead

1. first-person singular future of bí

Mutation

Further reading

• "bead" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ???d/

Verb

b?ad

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of b?odan

English

Etymology

From clinch +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

clincher (plural clinchers)

1. That which clinches; that which makes something final or firm.

   The clincher was that we couldn't wait any longer to leave, or it would get dark.
2. (cycling) A tyre with a bead around the edge to attach to the rim of the wheel when inflated.