prayer bead

collocation in English

meaningsofprayerandbead

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prayer
noun
uk
/preər/us
/prer/
the words that someone says or thinks when they ...
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bead
noun[C]
uk
/biːd/us
/biːd/
a small, coloured, often round piece of plastic, wood, glass, etc. with a hole through it. It is usually put on a string with a lot of others to ...
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(Definition ofprayerandbeadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Zen priests wear juzu (a ring of prayer beads) around their wrists, which consists of 108 beads.
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The demand for genuine faturan often confused for amber - has always been great amongprayerbead, tesbih and komboloi collectors.
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This is the time when the firstprayerbeadstrands made of what we now call faturan started to appear on the market.
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Anglicanprayerbeadsets are made with a variety of crosses or, occasionally, crucifixes.
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The entire frontage is adorned with long strings of wooden prayer beads.
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Around their necks they wear a white woolen cord woven into a series of 108 knots and serving as prayer beads ("mala").
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His suspicious finger movements are a reflexive motion coming from clutching prayer beads.
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He attacks his enemies with a belt of gigantic prayer beads and his fists.
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The practice of carrying prayer beads became controversial when gang-members began carrying specific colors of prayer beads to identify themselves.
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Catholics also use prayer beads to pray chaplets.
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There are four items which provide extra stat bonuses: talismans, prayer beads, jewels, and medicine cases.
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Instead, he wears prayer beads on his left hand, and has short spiky hair.
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She is depicted as a relatively thin girl with shoulder-length blonde hair who wears a short black dress, traditional sandals, and prayer beads she uses as an itako.
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In addition to the prayer beads she wears around her neck, she wields another set of beads called 1080 which she uses to fight strong spirits and shamans.
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One can capture him by throwing into the dust devil a rosary made of separately blessed prayer beads, or by pouncing on it with a sieve.
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Prayer beads or other ritual objects are commonly used during meditation in order to keep track of or remind the practitioner about some aspect of the training.
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