bead

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

bead [bead beads beaded beading] BrE [biːd] NAmE [biːd] noun
1. countable a small piece of glass, wood, etc. with a hole through it, that can be put on a string with others of the same type and worn as jewellery, etc
•a necklace of wooden beads
•A bead curtain separated the two rooms.
see also ↑worry beads
2. beadsplural a ↑rosary
•In one of the pews a woman was fingering her beads.
3. countable a small drop of liquid
•There were beads of sweat on his forehead.
Idiom: ↑get a bead on somebody

Word Origin:
Old English gebed ‘prayer’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bede and German Gebet, also to ↑bid. Current senses derive from the use of a rosary, each bead representing a prayer.

Example Bank:
•A strand of coral beads hung round her neck.
•She threaded the beads carefully.
•a string of wooden beads
•Little beads of blood seeped out from a cut on her cheek.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  beading, beadwork, astragal, drop, pearl