Beef vs Bead - What's the difference?
beef | bead |
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
# The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
a grudge (+ with )
(slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
(slang, uncountable) essence, content
To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
(slang) To fart.
(slang) To feud.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
(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 intransitive terms the difference between beef and bead
is that beef is to complain while bead is to form into a bead.In transitive terms the difference between beef and bead
is that beef is to add weight or strength to, usually as beef up while bead is to form into a bead.As an adjective beef
is being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.beef
English
(wikipedia beef)Noun
- I love eating beef .
- lean finely textured beef
- boneless lean beef trimmings
- Do you want to raise beeves ?
- He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
- We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Synonyms
* (meat of a cow)Hyponyms
* (meat of a cow) vealDerived terms
* beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?See also
* beefwoodVerb
(en verb)- Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
- Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off
Derived terms
* beef up * beef outAdjective
(-)- We bought three beef calves this morning.
- beef farms
- beef country
- beef stew
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.
