pebble 音标拼音: [p'ɛbəl]
n . 小圆石,小鹅卵石
小圆石,小鹅卵石
pebble n 1 :
a small smooth rounded rock Pebble \
Peb "
ble \,
n . [
AS .
papolst [=
a ]
n ;
cf .
L .
papula pimple ,
mote .
See {
Stone }.]
1 .
A small roundish piece of stone ;
especially ,
a stone worn and rounded by the action of water ;
a pebblestone . "
The pebbles on the hungry beach ." --
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
As children gathering pebbles on the shore .
--
Milton .
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2 .
Transparent and colorless rock crystal ;
as ,
Brazilian pebble ; --
so called by opticians .
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{
Pebble powder },
slow -
burning gunpowder ,
in large cubical grains .
{
Scotch pebble },
varieties of quartz ,
as agate ,
chalcedony ,
etc .,
obtained from cavities in amygdaloid .
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Pebble \
Peb "
ble \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Pebbled };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Pebbling }.]
To grain (
leather )
so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences .
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "
pebble ":
ace ,
asphalt ,
atom ,
bit ,
blacktop ,
carpet ,
causeway ,
cement ,
checkstone ,
cobblestone ,
concrete ,
dab ,
dole ,
dot ,
drakestone ,
dram ,
dribble ,
driblet ,
dwarf ,
farthing ,
fingerstone ,
flag ,
fleck ,
floor ,
flyspeck ,
fragment ,
gobbet ,
grain ,
granule ,
gravelstone ,
groat ,
hair ,
handful ,
iota ,
jackstone ,
jot ,
little ,
little bit ,
metal ,
minim ,
minimum ,
minutiae ,
mite ,
modicum ,
molecule ,
mote ,
nutshell ,
ounce ,
particle ,
pave ,
pebblestone ,
pinch ,
pittance ,
point ,
scruple ,
slingstone ,
smidgen ,
smitch ,
speck ,
spoonful ,
spot ,
tar ,
thimbleful ,
tiny bit ,
tittle ,
trifling amount ,
trivia ,
whit
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