(n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
(n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
(v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(2) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
(3) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(4) The approach to the checkpoint was covered in pebbles so we had to drive very slowly.
(5) So while I still like my Pebble (I've set it to show when I get a call; texts are in the past), there's a bitter aftertaste.
(6) No one knows how many people live in the redbrick and pebble dash dwellings along the pitted streets of Ciudad Bolívar; estimates range from 700,000 to more than a million.
(7) A 17-year-old white boy with signs, symptoms, and family history of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum universale, Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD), developed recurrent and then persistent swelling of both lips, erythematous hyperplastic gingivae, and a pebbled tongue.
(8) Two men aged respectively of 65 and 28 years presented a cobblestone appearance of the gingiva and of the tongue ("pebbly tongue"), which suggested Cowden disease.
(9) The old warehouses that edge the small pebble beach and sapphire-blue water are still owned by the same families, but they have now been converted into a rather special hotel.
(10) There is a long history of people coming here to build their makeshift beach bothies along the shoreline, making use of whatever materials the waves deposit among the giant pebbles.
(11) These divisions might therefore rely on maternally contributed pebble function.
(12) If you appeared on one of the three television channels, and she did so an awful lot, be it Pebble Mill at One , TV-am or her own series, 10 million people or more would watch you at a time – huge numbers compared with today.
(13) Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles.
(14) Traeth Yr Eifl, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd Traeth Yr Eifl beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith The best walk to this pleasant pebbly beach comes up over the cliffs that frame Morfa, a National Trust owned nature reserve.
(15) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
(16) Reported is a case representing an unusual form of geophagia, in which ingestion of pebbles by a 27-year-old mentally retarded woman resulted in impaction and complete filling of the colon with pebbles.
(17) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
(18) With a thick Brooklyn accent so gravelly it sounds like he swallowed a bag of pebbles before coming on stage, he tells the crowd in Burlington later that night that he is less about change and more about revolution.
(19) Dotted around are piles of red and orange rocks of various sizes, from boulders to pebbles.
(20) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".
Rock
Definition:
(n.) See Roc.
(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(6) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(7) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(8) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
(9) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(10) Russell is a former director of Northern Rock while Crosby is the former chief executive of HBOS.
(11) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(12) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(13) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(14) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(15) Emotional reactivity of patients with endogenous depression and healthy test subjects towards classic and rock music was compared.
(16) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(17) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
(18) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(19) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(20) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.