| bead | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. bead | a small ball with a hole through the middle. |
| ~ bugle | a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration. |
| ~ jewellery, jewelry | an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems). |
| n. (shape) | 2. bead, drop, pearl | a shape that is spherical and small.; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" |
| ~ sphere | a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses). |
| ~ dewdrop | a drop of dew. |
| ~ teardrop | anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. astragal, bead, beading, beadwork | a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture. |
| ~ moulding, molding | a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing. |
| ~ bead and quirk, quirk bead | beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates. |
| v. (stative) | 4. bead | form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example. |
| ~ form | assume a form or shape.; "the water formed little beads" |
| v. (creation) | 5. bead | decorate by sewing beads onto.; "bead the wedding gown" |
| ~ adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, beautify, embellish | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" |
| v. (contact) | 6. bead | string together like beads. |
| ~ string, thread, draw | thread on or as if on a string.; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries" |
| clove | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. clove | aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice. |
| ~ clove | spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground. |
| ~ clove tree, eugenia aromaticum, eugenia caryophyllatum, syzygium aromaticum, clove | moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves. |
| ~ flower bud | a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop. |
| n. (plant) | 2. clove, clove tree, eugenia aromaticum, eugenia caryophyllatum, syzygium aromaticum | moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves. |
| ~ genus syzygium, syzygium | a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family native to the East Indies but cultivated elsewhere. |
| ~ clove | aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice. |
| ~ spice tree | tree bearing aromatic bark or berries. |
| n. (food) | 3. clove, garlic clove | one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb. |
| ~ ail, garlic | aromatic bulb used as seasoning. |
| n. (food) | 4. clove | spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground. |
| ~ spice | any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food. |
| ~ clove | aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice. |
| kernel | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. kernel, meat | the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone.; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" |
| ~ plant part, plant structure | any part of a plant or fungus. |
| ~ seed | a small hard fruit. |
| n. (plant) | 2. kernel | a single whole grain of a cereal.; "a kernel of corn" |
| ~ corn | the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal. |
| ~ caryopsis, grain | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements.; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" |
| ~ hypostasis | (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality. |
| ~ haecceity, quiddity | the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other. |
| ~ quintessence | the purest and most concentrated essence of something. |
| ~ stuff | a critically important or characteristic component.; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" |
| gouge out | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. gouge out | make gouges into a surface.; "The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor" |
| ~ cut out | form and create by cutting out.; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper" |
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