Rosary vs. Paternoster: What's the Difference?

A form of devotion to the Virgin Mary, chiefly consisting of three sets of five decades each of the Hail Mary, each decade preceded by the Lord's Prayer and ending with a doxology.

Often Paternoster The Lord's Prayer.

One of these sets of decades.

One of the large beads on a rosary on which the Lord's Prayer is said.

A string of beads of 5 or 15 decades on which these prayers are counted.

A sequence of words spoken as a prayer or a magic formula.

Similar beads used by other religious groups.

A weighted fishing line having several jointed attachments for hooks connected by beadlike swivels.

Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)

An elevator constructed of a series of doorless compartments hung on chains that move slowly and continuously, allowing passengers to step on and off at will.

A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys", each decade beginning with "Our Father" and ending with "Glory Be to the Father", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran prayers.

(Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.

(by extension) A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.

A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.

A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.

(architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.

A rose garden.

(fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.

A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.

A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.

Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.

A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.

A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.

A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.

(archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

Beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary)

To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

A beadlike ornament in moldings.

A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers.

An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top.

(Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'

A type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in a loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor