Beard vs Bead - What's the difference?
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Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
(obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
* Macaulay
* Barnaby , December 6, 1943
* Ross Macdonald, The Chill , 1963, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
(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.
In transitive terms the difference between beard and bead
is that beard is to deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills while bead is to form into a bead.As nouns the difference between beard and bead
is that beard is facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw while bead is prayer, later especially with a rosary.As verbs the difference between beard and bead
is that beard is to grow hair on the chin and jaw while bead is to form into a bead.As a proper noun Beard
is {{surname|from=nicknames}.beard
English
Noun
(en noun)- the beard of grain
Derived terms
* beardedSee also
* (wikipedia) * goatee * hair * moustache, mustache * pogonophobia * sideburns, sideboards * whiskers * awnVerb
(en verb)- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
- We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
- . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
Derived terms
* beard the lion, beard the lion in his denAnagrams
*bead
English
Noun
(en noun)Charles T. Ambrose
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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.
