Bead (n.) A prayer. |
Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament |
Bead (n.) Any small globular body |
Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits. |
Bead (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. |
Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). |
Bead (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. |
Bead (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 |
Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. |
Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it |
Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken. |
Country seat () A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. |
Radius (n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery |
Radius (n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
Radius (n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2. |
Radius (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather. |
Radius (n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates. |
Radius (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument. |
Radius vector () A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n. |
Radius vector (n.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite. |
Seat (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits |
Seat (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides |
Seat (n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits |
Seat (n.) A sitting |
Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. |
Seat (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests |
Seat (v. t.) To place on a seat |
Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like |
Seat (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of |
Seat (v. t.) To fix |
Seat (v. t.) To settle |
Seat (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in |
Seat (v. i.) To rest |
hot seat | a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism |
bead | a small ball with a hole through the middle |
beading bead beadwork astragal | a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture |
bell seat balloon seat | a seat that has a bell shape (on some th century chairs) |
bicycle seat saddle | a seat for the rider of a bicycle |
box box seat | the driver's seat on a coach, an armed guard sat in the box with the driver |
box seat | a special seat in a theater or grandstand box |
bucket seat | a low single seat as in cars or planes |
car seat | a seat in a car |
death seat | the car seat beside the driver of an automobile, believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident |
dickey dickie dicky dickey-seat dickie-seat dicky-seat | a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater |
ejection seat ejector seat capsule | a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency, then the pilot descends by parachute |
electric chair chair death chair hot seat | an instrument of execution by electrocution, resembles an ordinary seat for one person, the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair |
jump seat | a folding seat in an automobile |
love seat loveseat tete-a-tete vis-a-vis | small sofa that seats two people |
mercy seat | the golden covering of the ark of the covenant |
mercy seat | the throne of God |
plane seat | a seat on a commercial airliner |
potty seat potty chair | toilet consisting of a small seat used by young children |
quirk bead bead and quirk | beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates |
ringside ringside seat | first row of seating, has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring |
rumble seat | a folding outside seat in the back of some early cars |
saddle seat | a chair seat that is slightly concave and sometimes has a thickened ridge in the center, the saddle seat fitted his buttocks nicely |
seat | any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit), he dusted off the seat before sitting down |
seat | furniture that is designed for sitting on, there were not enough seats for all the guests |
seat | the cloth covering for the buttocks, the seat of his pants was worn through |
seat | a part of a machine that supports or guides another part |
seat belt seatbelt | a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident |
seat cushion | a cushion that makes a seat more comfortable |
sliding seat | rower's seat that slides fore and aft |
spoke wheel spoke radius | support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim |
tiered seat | seating that is arranged in sloping tiers so that spectators in the back can see over the heads of those in front |
toilet seat | the hinged seat on a toilet |
window seat | a bench or similar seat built into a window recess |
radius r | the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere |
radius of curvature | the radius of the circle of curvature, the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature of a curve at a given point |
seat | the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body, he was elected to a seat in the Senate |
c buttocks nates arse butt backside bum buns can fundament hindquarters hind end keister posterior prat rear rear end rump stern seat tail tail end tooshie tush bottom behind derriere fanny ass a d | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on, he deserves a good kick in the butt, are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? |
radius | the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm |
radius vector | a line connecting a point in space to the origin of a polar coordinate system |
radius vector | a line connecting a satellite to the center of the body around which it is rotating |
seat | the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based, the brain is said to be the seat of reason |
county seat county courthouse | the town or city that is the seat of government for a county |
radius | a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius, they located it within a radius of miles |
seat place | a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane), he booked their seats in advance, he sat in someone else's place |
seat | a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) |
white baneberry white cohosh white bead doll's eyes Actaea alba | North American herb with white poisonous berries |
cat'slaw catclaw black bead Pithecellodium unguisati | erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds, West Indies and Florida |
bead tree jumby bean jumby tree Ormosia monosperma | small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers, seeds are black or scarlet with black spots |
jumby bead jumbie bead Ormosia coarctata | West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds |