perle — meaning in English

English meaning

• bead noun A small, often round piece of glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through it, used for jewellery or decoration.
• blooper noun A blunder, an error.
• brilliant adj Shining very brightly.
• keeper noun Someone or something worth holding on to.
• pearl noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.

Senses

perle is used for these senses in English:

• bead Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]
• beaded Made from, or decorated with, beads.
• blooper (informal) A blunder, an error.
• brilliant (uncountable, printing, dated) The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.
• keeper A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
• pearl (literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
• pearl (figuratively) Something precious.

bead — full definition

1. noun A small, often round piece of glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through it, used for jewellery or decoration.
2. noun A small drop of liquid, such as sweat or condensation.
3. noun One of the small balls on a rosary, used for counting prayers.

blooper — full definition

1. noun A blunder, an error.
2. noun A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
3. noun A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident or mistake.
4. noun A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.

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