Bead vs Gaudy - What's the difference?
bead | gaudy |
(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.
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#A bubble, in spirits.
#A small round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
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#*: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.
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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.
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Front sight of a gun.
To form into a bead.
To apply beads to.
To form into a bead.
very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
* Shakespeare
* 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice
* 1887 , Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker
* 2005 , Thomas Hauser & Marilyn Cole Lownes, "How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring", The Observer , 9 January 2005
(obsolete) gay; merry; festive
* Shakespeare
* Twain
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
As nouns the difference between bead and gaudy
is that bead is prayer, later especially with a rosary while gaudy is one of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.As a verb bead
is to form into a bead.As an adjective gaudy is
very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.bead
English
Noun
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Derived terms
* anal beads * beady * draw a bead onVerb
(en verb)- The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
- She spent the morning beading the gown.
- He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
Anagrams
* ----gaudy
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps from . A common claim that the word derives from , is not supported by evidence (the word was in use at least half a century before Gaudí was born).Adjective
(er)- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy .
- The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
- A large gaudy , flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume.
- Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.
- (Tennyson)
- Let's have one other gaudy night.
- And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw...
Synonyms
* (excessively showy) tawdry, flashy, garish, kitschy *Derived terms
* gaudily * gaudy nightNoun
(gaudies)- (Gower)
