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pebble 音標拼音: [p'ɛbəl] n. 小圓石,小鵝卵石 小圓石,小鵝卵石 pebble n 1: a small smooth rounded rockPebble \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] As children gathering pebbles on the shore. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians. [ 1913 Webster] { Pebble powder}, slow- burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains. { Scotch pebble}, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 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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