take a bead on in English

Forms: takes a bead on [present, singular, third-person], taking a bead on [participle, present], took a bead on [past], taken a bead on [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> a bead on}} take a bead on (third-person singular simple present takes a bead on, present participle taking a bead on, simple past took a bead on, past participle taken a bead on)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a bead on"
      },
      "expansion": "take a bead on (third-person singular simple present takes a bead on, present participle taking a bead on, simple past took a bead on, past participle taken a bead on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To aim a gun at something."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_a_bead_on-en-verb-BdQQjd1F",
      "links": [
        [
          "aim",
          "aim"
        ],
        [
          "gun",
          "gun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To aim a gun at something."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "draw a bead on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take a bead on"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a bead on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a bead on"
      },
      "expansion": "take a bead on (third-person singular simple present takes a bead on, present participle taking a bead on, simple past took a bead on, past participle taken a bead on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To aim a gun at something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aim",
          "aim"
        ],
        [
          "gun",
          "gun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To aim a gun at something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "draw a bead on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take a bead on"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"take a bead on" meaning in English

Verb