(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
(n.) Any small globular body
(n.) A bubble in spirits.
(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.
(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
(n.) 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; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
(2) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(3) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(4) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
(5) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(6) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(7) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(8) Cytotoxic T lymphocytes were found to mediate rapid lysis of target cells not normally recognized in the presence of small polystyrene beads coated with a combination of anti-T3 and antitarget cell antibodies.
(9) Beads approximately 1 microm in diameter appeared to be the optimal size for ingestion.
(10) In the presence of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, stimulation induced an accumulation of cAMP, making possible the NMR detection of the second messenger in living cells grown on microcarrier beads and perfused in the NMR tube.
(11) In order to examine the mechanisms underlying radiation-induced changes in phosphorus metabolite levels observed in RIF-1 tumors in vivo, RIF-1 cells in culture were perfused for up to 70 h following gamma-irradiation with 0-25 Gy and monitored continuously by 31P NMR spectroscopy at 8.5 T. Cells immobilized in the sample volume by incorporation into calcium alginate beads were bioenergetically stable, but did not replicate at the cell density used.
(12) To investigate the effect of steroid hormone on phagocytosis by keratocytes, we investigated the phagocytic activities for latex beads by rabbit corneal keratocytes cultured in the presence and absence of dexamethasone.
(13) The M-280 beads which are smaller (diameter 2.8 microns) and contain less iron than the M-450 beads were coated with polyclonal IgG sheep antimouse (SAM) antibody.
(14) No radiographic studies are routinely needed; bead-chain cystourethrography and IVU in particular probably offer little additional information.
(15) The electron-dense tracers, ferritin, peroxidase, Thorotrast, and latex beads were all ingested but none was phagocytized.
(16) After elution of the complex from the beads a new cycle of capture, washing and release of the target-capture-reporter-probe complex is initiated by the additions of unused (dT)-tailed beads.
(17) In this procedure, target DNA is captured by a biotinylated oligonucleotide via intermolecular triplex formation, bound to streptavidin-coated magnetic beads, and recovered in double-stranded form by elution with a mild alkaline buffer that destabilizes the triple helix.
(18) Because the plasma clots were not well retained in the basal cistern, however, small beads (dextran or latex) were added to stabilize them.
(19) Amino ligands such as proteins or drugs can be bound covalently to the beads in a single step at physiological pH.
(20) We also found a strong binding of S-protein antibodies to agarose beads preincubated in native serum, which was strongly reduced (70-80%) by inactivation of the alternative complement pathway (50 degrees C, 20 min).
Beady
Definition:
(a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
(a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
(a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(2) Beady Eye tracks such as The Roller are, it has to be said, shown up by the former bands' glories, but closing track Bring the Light matches their peaks for sheer verve at least.
(3) Asked by a fan about the possibilities of such a reunion, Gallagher simply said: “What reunion?” However, he did admit to having spent time recently with Beady Eye, the band featuring his former Oasis bandmates, including his brother Liam.
(4) Click to view Beady Eye have issued an update on the condition of the band's guitarist Gem Archer, stating that after suffering severe head trauma on 1 August, he is "expected to make a full recovery over the next few weeks".
(5) It far outsold the debut by most of his former bandmates’ post-Oasis project, Beady Eye.
(6) In the same spirit, Tory strategists are focusing a beady eye on Labour voters who are made uneasy by the rainbow politics of the metropolitan left, of the Stop the War Coalition , of the social networks Corbyn harnessed so brilliantly in the leadership contest.
(7) Some private colleges that have attracted the beady attention of Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee get more public money in proportion to their turnovers than the London School of Economics, one of our world-class universities.
(8) The world is better for government being kept under the beady-eyed scrutiny of the media and for salient and interesting facts about public espionage being brought into the public domain."
(9) He added that people who thought Beady Eye should be playing stadiums just because of his Oasis success were living in the past.
(10) Although Trump has flip-flopped on abortion and has seemingly softened his perspective on Obamacare , Mike Pence , his beady-eyed running mate, has been vehemently opposed to reproductive rights throughout his political career.
(11) Transduodenal pancreatograms were performed in three patients; one showed a normal pancreatic duct, one showed duct obstruction and in the third patient a beady type of narrowing was found.
(12) As I’m talking to you, his beady eyes are burrowing into my face.
(13) "And if you didn't agree with her, those little, beady eyes would pop right open.
(14) She seems to think that the job of a performer is to be dissected by beady feminist critics rather than to, well, perform – and how is strutting your stuff to 10,000 paying punters a night "avoiding scrutiny"?
(15) No great liberties were taken with my story – although I no longer see that as a criterion – and my only job was to provide the odd grace note to the screenplay while befriending Richard Burton and keeping a beady eye on his alcohol consumption.
(16) The wall, which assumed a beady appearance as digestion proceded, ultimately sloughed off to reveal the furrowed surface of the plasma membrane.
(17) Asked why Beady Eye were playing the Ritz while Williams was playing to tens of thousands, Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 Live they were a "proper live band" but "the bullshit is winning".
(18) "At our first rehearsal, I was certain of it," he says, beady brown eyes glittering.
(19) Salinger certainly kept a beady eye on the commentators.
(20) It's also based on the second-best screenplay by the great thriller writer Eric Ambler (the best was his equally beady-eyed adaptation of The Cruel Sea, five years earlier).