bead
钉珠,钉珠子,钉子,钉钉子
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Definitions
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- : a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- : beads, a necklace of beads: You don't have your beads on this evening.a rosary.Obsolete.devotions; prayers.
- : any small globular or cylindrical body.
- : a drop of liquid: beads of moisture.
- : a bubble rising through effervescent liquid.
- : Usually beads. a mass of such bubbles on the surface of a liquid.
- : the front sight of a rifle or gun.
- : a reinforced area of a rubber tire terminating the sidewall and fitting within the rim of a wheel.
- : Electricity. a glass, ceramic, or plastic insulator that contains and supports the inner conductor in a coaxial cable.
- : Chemistry. a globule of borax or some other flux, supported on a platinum wire, in which a small amount of some substance is heated in a flame as a test for its constituents.
- : Metallurgy. the rounded mass of refined metal obtained by cupellation.
- : Architecture, Furniture. a small molding having a convex circular section and, usually, a continuous cylindrical surface; astragal.
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Examples
Each blanket is made from 100% cotton and contains non-toxic glass beads.
Pieces in the Wixarikas Collection are especially time consuming, requiring up to a week of work on just the colorful, detailed bead patterns.
Now researchers have demonstrated the bizarre effect for the first time in the laboratory by cooling glass beads as a proxy for the more complex freezing process of water.
They start their lives as ribbons of linear components, called amino acids, like beads on a string.
In his rustic office, a cow tail with bead embroidery and a fez hanging above it like a crown are displayed on one wall.
The wall directly opposite the entrance was covered in colorful glass and bead mosaics.
You can turn it over 17 times in your head and not really get a clear bead on what all that craziness means.
The bead embroidery on the back of her coat said “Revolution.”
It also takes years of training to be able to sew, embroider, bead, and otherwise embellish these clothes.
In contrast, Hell on Wheels often has too much happening to get a bead on where the story is going.
He seemed to have abandoned himself to a reverie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead.
When the doctor arrived in the country, Butifer drew a bead on him, in a corner of the forest.