Orb vs Bead - What's the difference?

orb | bead |

As an initialism orb

is (software engineering).

As a noun bead is

(lb) prayer, later especially with a rosary.

As a verb bead is

to form into a bead.

orb

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) orbe, from (etyl) . Compare orbit .

Noun

(en noun)

A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

In the small orb of one particular tear. --

Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --

One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions

A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit

The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon

You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --

In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --

(rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.

(John Milton)

(poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical

A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --

(poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel

The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --

(rare) A sphere of action.

(William Wordsworth)

But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --

A globus cruciger

A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography

(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.

Verb

(en verb)

(poetic) to form into an orb or circle

(Lowell)

(Milton)

(poetic) to encircle; to surround; to enclose

* Addison

The wheels were orbed with gold.

(poetic) to become round like an orb

Etymology 2

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(architecture) A blank window or panel.

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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.

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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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