Pebble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small stone, especially one worn smooth by erosion.
  • n. Clear colorless quartz; rock crystal.
  • n. A lens made of such quartz.
  • n. Geology A rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimeters (0.16 and 2.51 inches) in diameter, especially one that has been naturally rounded.
  • n. An irregularly rough, grainy surface, as on leather or paper.
  • v. To pave with pebbles.
  • v. To impart an irregularly rough, grainy surface to (leather or paper).
  • v. To pelt with pebbles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small stone
  • n. A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  • n. A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
  • v. To pave with pebbles.
  • v. To deposit water droplets on the ice. e.g. to pebble the ice between games.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
  • n. Transparent and colorless rock crystal.
  • v. To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small rounded stone.
  • n. In jewelry, an agate. Scotch agates are commonly known as Scotch pebbles.
  • n. A transparent and colorless rook-crystal used as a substitute for glass in spectacles, or a fine kind of glass so used.
  • n. Pebble-leather.
  • n. A large size of gunpowder; pebble-powder.
  • n. One of several different pyralid, tortricid, and bombycid moths: an English collectors’ name.
  • To assume a prominent grain, or a rough or ribbed appearance, as leather when treated by the process called pebbling.
  • To prepare, as leather, so as to cause the grain to become prominent and to present a roughened or ribbed appearance. See pebbling.
  • n. In Australia, a hard, obstinate person; a tough; also said of animals.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small smooth rounded rock
  • Verb Form
    pebbled    pebbles    pebbling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stone    rock   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    pebbled    pebbling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pebblestone    stone    chuckie    plump    grain   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rebel    nebel    rebel    treble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gravel    boulder    shingle    sand    bead    rubble    shard    weed    moss    clay