Beared vs Beaded - What's the difference?

beared | beaded |

As verbs the difference between beared and beaded

is that beared is (bear) while beaded is (bead).

beared

English

Verb

(head)

(bear)

* 1996 , Jules Tygiel, The Great Los Angeles Swindle , page 124:

The sudden emergence of a bull market generated panic among brokers who had "beared " or "shorted" the stock.

* Jack London, Hearts of Three

For see, except where your holdings are concerned, the market is reasonable and right. But take your holdings. There's Frisco Consolidated. There is neither sense nor logic that it should be beared this way.

Usage notes

* This form is found especially in the finance sense. In most other senses, the past tense bore and past participle borne are generally preferred.

beaded

English

Verb

(head)

(bead)

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.

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#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

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