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BEAD
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Traducere în limba română
bead I. substantiv
1. mărgea, mărgică; bob, boabă; perlă, mărgăritar; plural (şi pair of beads) şirag de mătănii;
to say over / to tell one’s beads a-şi spune rugăciunile;
to pray without one’s beads a da greş, a-şi face greşit socotelile.
2. strop, picătură, broboană.
3. başică (de aer); spumă; plural mărgele (la vin).
4. (mil.) cătare;
to draw a bead on a ochi, a lua la ţintă, la cătare.
5. (tehn.) bord(ură); margine îndoită; guler, umăr; renură; talon (la anvelopă).
bead II. verb A. tranzitiv
1. a înşira, a aşeza în şirag;
the houses are beaded along the river casele stau înşirate (ca mărgelele) de-a lungul râului.
2. a împodobi cu mărgele; a coase mărgele la.
bead II. verb B. intranzitiv
1. a face mărgele / broboane, a se îmbrobona, a se înroura.
2. (înv.) a citi rugăciuni, a spune rugăciuni, molitve.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The beads block blood flow to the tumor as they release the drug.
(Chemoembolization, NCI Dictionary)
The researchers tested the device by viewing fluorescent beads.
(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)
But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes—indeed, they are there now, shining and swimming; and a bead has slipped from the lash and fallen on to the flag.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
My mother is ready for me at her writing-desk, but not half so ready as Mr. Murdstone in his easy-chair by the window (though he pretends to be reading a book), or as Miss Murdstone, sitting near my mother stringing steel beads.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)