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A pebble is a small stone that water has worn smooth. You find pebbles on beaches and in river beds; they feel nice in the hand because the sharp edges have gone. They are bigger than grains of sand but smaller than what most people would call a rock. Though actually nobody is strict about the size: a child may call any small stone a pebble. The everyday word is the noun. There is also a quieter verb: to pebble a path is to cover it with these small stones so it does not turn to mud; more rarely, to pebble someone is to throw pebbles at them.
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組成From Middle English pibel, from Old English papolstān — papol (origin unknown) + stān (stone). So it began as 'pebble-stone'; later people dropped the stone part. An Albanian word popël is sometimes compared, but that link is not sure enough to lean on.
同家族的字
- pebblyfull of pebbles
- pebbledasha wall finish made by throwing tiny stones onto wet cement
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pebblenoun/ˈpɛbəl/
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A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
- Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach Fillip the stars;
- And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesA particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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ball-gamescurlinggamesA small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
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Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
- Brazilian pebble
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A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
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slangA small piece of crack cocaine.
- You ain't got your Glock for the summer / And you ain't gonna pop for your gunner / You ain't in the whip with them pebbles (Nah) / You ain't on the strip with the rebels (Nah)
pebbleverb/ˈpɛbəl/
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To pave with pebbles.
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ball-gamescurlinggamesTo deposit water droplets on the ice.
- to pebble the ice between games
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To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
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graph-theorymathematicssciencesTo place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules, in a pebble game.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。