bead

«bead» in Mova's school dictionary: a small ball or shape with a hole through it, put on a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (bead, beads); verb (bead — to put beads on, rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bead is a small ball or shape with a hole through it, put on a string to make a necklace or bracelet. tree →

2) A bead of water or sweat is a small round drop. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: small things counted, often per necklace or bracelet, or by colour; repeating bead patterns; beads on an abacus or bead string for counting. In everyday life and crafts: making friendship bracelets. Phrases: «a string of beads», «beads of sweat», «bead pattern».

examples

• A necklace has 30 beads. tree →
• She uses 8 red beads and 12 blue beads. tree →
• Each bracelet needs 15 beads. tree →
• How many bracelets can she make with 90 beads? tree →
• The pattern goes red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue. tree →
• We count to 100 on a bead string. tree →
• Beads of rain ran down the window. tree →
• She made a friendship bracelet with glass beads. tree →
• She wore a silk dress, golden bracelets, and large amber beads. tree →

note

Countable: «a bead», «beads». Maths: beads per necklace is a rate; total beads ÷ beads per necklace gives how many necklaces. In a repeating pattern use the remainder to find a later bead. Trap: leftover beads are a remainder. Safety: small beads are dangerous for babies.

In the corpora

• With 10 red beads there are 10 / 2 = 5 groups, so there are 5 × 3 = 15 blue beads.
• If you know all the beads instead, one group has 2 + 3 = 5 beads, and 15 beads make 3 groups.
• Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night.
• Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.