Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bead
Participle: beaded
Gerund: beading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bead |
| you | bead |
| he;she;it | beads |
| we | bead |
| you | bead |
| they | bead |
Perfect
| I | have beaded |
| you | have beaded |
| he;she;it | has beaded |
| we | have beaded |
| you | have beaded |
| they | have beaded |
Past
| I | beaded |
| you | beaded |
| he;she;it | beaded |
| we | beaded |
| you | beaded |
| they | beaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had beaded |
| you | had beaded |
| he;she;it | had beaded |
| we | had beaded |
| you | had beaded |
| they | had beaded |
Future
| I | will bead |
| you | will bead |
| he;she;it | will bead |
| we | will bead |
| you | will bead |
| they | will bead |
Future Perfect
| I | will have beaded |
| you | will have beaded |
| he;she;it | will have beaded |
| we | will have beaded |
| you | will have beaded |
| they | will have beaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bead |
| you | bead |
| he;she;it | bead |
| we | bead |
| you | bead |
| they | bead |
Perfect
| I | have beaded |
| you | have beaded |
| he;she;it | have beaded |
| we | have beaded |
| you | have beaded |
| they | have beaded |
Imperfect
| I | beaded |
| you | beaded |
| he;she;it | beaded |
| we | beaded |
| you | beaded |
| they | beaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had beaded |
| you | had beaded |
| he;she;it | had beaded |
| we | had beaded |
| you | had beaded |
| they | had beaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bead |
| you | would bead |
| he;she;it | would bead |
| we | would bead |
| you | would bead |
| they | would bead |
Perfect
| I | would have beaded |
| you | would have beaded |
| he;she;it | would have beaded |
| we | would have beaded |
| you | would have beaded |
| they | would have beaded |
Imperative
| you | bead |
| we | Let's bead |
| you | bead |
Verbs conjugated like 'bead'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bead'
bad,
beak,
beal,
beam,
bean,
bear,
beard,
beat,
bed,
bemad,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1377, bede "prayer bead," from O.E. gebed "prayer," from P.Gmc. *beðan (cf. M.Du. bede, O.H.G. beta, Ger. bitte, Goth. bida). Shift in meaning came via beads threaded on a string to count prayers, and in phrases like to bid one's beads, to count one's beads. Ger. cognate Bitte is the usual word for conversational request "please." Also related to bid (O.E. biddan) and Goth. bidjan "to ask, pray." Sense transferred to "drop of liquid" 1596; to "small knob forming front sight of a gun" 1831 (Kentucky slang); hence draw a bead on "take aim at," 1841, U.S. colloquial.
2. From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).
Sample Sentences
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The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
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She spent the morning beading the gown.
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He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
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Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it. [1941, Emily Carr, “Greenville”, in Klee Wyck:]