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Heal vs Bead - What's the difference?

heal | bead |

In lang=en terms the difference between heal and bead

is that heal is to become better while bead is to form into a bead.

As verbs the difference between heal and bead

is that heal is to hide; conceal; keep secret or heal can be to make better from a disease, wound, etc; to revive or cure while bead is to form into a bead.

As nouns the difference between heal and bead

is that heal is (obsolete) health while bead is (lb) prayer, later especially with a rosary.

heal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)

Verb

  • To hide; conceal; keep secret.
  • To cover, as for protection.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
    • This bandage will heal your cut.
  • * Bible, Matthew viii. 8
    • Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
  • To become better.
    • Bandages allow cuts to heal .
  • To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
    • to heal dissensions
    Synonyms
    * (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recover
    Derived terms
    * healable * healand, Healand * healer * health

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) health
    • (Chaucer)

    Anagrams

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    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.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads .}}
  • #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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