different between bead vs pea

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: P, pee

Etymology 1

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek ????? (píson).

Alternative forms

• pease (archaic)

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (botany) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
2. (cooking) The edible seed of some of these plants.
3. (Jamaican) Any of several varieties of bean.

   peas and rice

Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)
• ? Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)
• ? Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)

Translations

Etymology 2

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
2. (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
3. (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English p?a, p?wa (“peacock”) (compare Old English p?we (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *p?wô (“peacock”), from Latin p?v? (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak

Further reading

• pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, Pae, ape

Basque

Noun

pea

1. absolutive singular of pe

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *pä?e. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

1. head

Declension

Adverb

pea

1. almost

2. soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)

Hawaiian

Etymology

From English bear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe.a/, [?p?j?]

Noun

pea

1. bear

Derived terms

• pea ??lika (“polar bear”)
• pea p??ani (“teddy bear”)
• pea Kina (“panda bear”)

Japanese

Romanization

pea

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Maori

Etymology

From English bear.

Noun

pea

1. bear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pea/, [?pe.a]

Etymology 1

From peer.

Noun

pea f (plural peas)

1. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peer.

Further reading

• “pea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)

1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

Conjugation

Walloon

Etymology

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Noun

pea ? (plural peas)

1. (anatomy) skin