би́сер — 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.
• pearl noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.

Senses

би́сер is used for these senses in English:

• bead Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]
• 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.

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.

pearl — full definition

1. noun A smooth, rounded gem formed inside the shell of certain oysters and mollusks, prized for jewelry.
2. verb Surfing slang: for the nose of a surfboard to dip underwater, usually causing a wipeout.

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