pebble

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Noun

1. A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
2. A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
3. A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
4. Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
5. A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
6. (slang) A small piece of crack cocaine.

Verb

1. To pave with pebbles.
2. To deposit water droplets on the ice.
3. To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
4. To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.

Từ đồng nghĩa

stone

🪨

gravel

rock

🪨

small stone

shingle

grit

boulder

cobble

coarse sand

little stone

pebbles

cobblestone

rock crystal

rubble

white rock

round stone

mountain crystal

jack-stone

coobble

grait

boulder flint

battery

🔋

berg crystal

crystal

flint

grain

jewel

lens

mountain

⛰️

particle

paving stone

quartz crystal

rocks

hard rock

bit of gravel

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Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈpɛb.əl/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.