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Beaming vs Beading - What's the difference?

beaming | beading |

As verbs the difference between beaming and beading

is that beaming is while beading is .

As nouns the difference between beaming and beading

is that beaming is the act of someone or something that beams while beading is (architecture) decoration or ornamental molding resembling a string of beads or of a semicircular cross section.

As an adjective beaming

is smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

beaming

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
  • * c.1846-1848 , ,
    • The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming' and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more ' beaming and more happy, every day.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that beams.
  • * 1826 , Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt
    • The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things

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    beading

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) Decoration or ornamental molding resembling a string of beads or of a semicircular cross section.
  • The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors.
    • the beading of a brand of whisky
    (Webster 1913)