BEADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beading mean? 

• BEADING (noun)
  The noun BEADING has 2 senses:

1. ornamentation with beads

2. a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

  Familiarity information: BEADING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ornamentation with beads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

beading; beadwork

Hypernyms ("beading" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

astragal; bead; beading; beadwork

Hypernyms ("beading" is a kind of...):

molding; moulding (a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beading"):

bead and quirk; quirk bead (beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates)

 Context examples 

A rare, autosomal recessive metabolic disorder characterized by hoarseness of voice, eyelid beading, skin lesions, and seizures.

(Lipoid Proteinosis of Urbach and Wiethe, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestations include severe skeletal defects resembling vitamin D-resistant rickets, failure of the calvarium to calcify, dyspnea, cyanosis, vomiting, constipation, renal calcinosis, failure to thrive, disorders of movement, beading of the costochondral junction, and rachitic bone changes.

(Hypophosphatasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)