Bead vs Foam - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bead and foam

is that bead is (lb) prayer, later especially with a rosary while foam is a substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.

As verbs the difference between bead and foam

is that bead is to form into a bead while foam is to form or emit foam.

bead

English

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.

*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , 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.

Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

A small round object.

#A small round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire.

#A small round solid object.

#*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads .}}

#A small drop of water or other liquid.

#A bubble, in spirits.

#A small round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.

#*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

(lb) A ridge, band, or molding.

#A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.

A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

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.

Front sight of a gun.

Derived terms

* anal beads * beady * draw a bead on

Verb

(en verb)

To form into a bead.

The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.

To apply beads to.

She spent the morning beading the gown.

To form into a bead.

He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.

Anagrams

* ----

foam

English

Noun

A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam , a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

(by extension) Sea foam; (figuratively) the sea.

Derived terms

* foamy

Verb

(en verb)

To form or emit foam.

* Bible, Mark ix. 18

He foameth , and gnasheth with his teeth.

* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]

What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way. Before that, I never knew what it was to foam at the mouth, but now the action of the sharp bit on my tongue and jaw, and the constrained position of my head and throat, always caused me to froth at the mouth more or less.