bead

1. 1.

   form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

   Broaderform
2. 2.

   decorate by sewing beads onto

   “bead the wedding gown”

   Broaderdecorate
3. 3.

   string together like beads

   Broaderstring

Other forms of bead

plural

beads·

past tense

beaded·

present participle

beading·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bead

What does bead mean?

bead means "a small ball with a hole through the middle". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bead?

bead has 1 syllable: bead. In IPA it is /ˈbid/.

What is another word for bead?

Close synonyms include drop, pearl, beading, beadwork, astragal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bead a common word?

bead is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bead?

1 word rhymes with bead. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.