pebble
/ˈpɛb.əl/
noun
🇬🇧 UK
/ˈpɛb.əl/
🇺🇸 US
/ˈpɛb.əl/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · noun
A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
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Meaning 2 · noun
A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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Meaning 3 · noun
A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
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Meaning 4 · noun
Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
“Brazilian pebble”
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Meaning 5 · noun
A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
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Meaning 6 · verb
To pave with pebbles.
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Meaning 7 · verb
To deposit water droplets on the ice.
“to pebble the ice between games”
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Meaning 8 · verb
To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
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Meaning 9 · verb
To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.
How this word is used
- General “Brazilian pebble”
- General “to pebble the ice between games”
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