(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".
Shingle
Definition:
(n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
(n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
(n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
(v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
(v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along with asthenia, polyadenopathies, and shingles, it is often an early sign of AIDS.
(2) This outbreak suggests that shingles can be provoked by reexposure to varicella-zoster virus.
(3) A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of amantadine hydrochloride (Symmetrel) in acute herpes zoster (shingles) was carried out in 100 patients in general practice.
(4) Somatic sensory perception thresholds (warm, cold, hot pain, touch, pinprick, vibration, two-point discrimination), allodynia and skin temperature were assessed in the affected area of 42 patients with unilateral postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) and 20 patients who had had unilateral shingles not followed by PHN (NoPHN), and in the mirror-image area on the other side.
(5) Acyclovir has demonstrated clinical efficacy for chickenpox, shingles (herpes zoster), genital herpes, and other herpes simplex infections.
(6) Unusual presentations of HIV infected persons which have been seen in Africa include serially developing abscesses in pyomyositis, gall bladder diseases, pericarditis or myocarditis, diseases of the Central Nervous System (cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis, non-specific leuko-encephalitis, atraumatic paraplegia, acute psychosis or chronic deterioration in mental capacity, lymphoma of the brain), prodromal illnesses, swollen lymph nodes, herpes zoster or shingles in young adults, or tumours of the lymphatic system.
(7) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
(8) Patients over 50 with simple shingles should be offered topical idoxuridine or intravenous acyclovir to reduce the risk of post-herpetic neuralgia.
(9) The varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and shingles.
(10) Vesicles then appear on the skin in the distribution of this nerve, producing the characteristic dermatomal rash of shingles.
(11) Specimens from patients with smallpox, various forms of vaccination complications, varicella, zoster (shingles), and herpes simplex are included in this evaluation.
(12) By comparison, gypsum pellet carriers sustained penetration rates of 37% in shingle-stacked piles and 87% in random-stacked piles.
(13) At Cley, in North Norfolk, a new nature reserve just purchased by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust was flooded, a bird hide had disappeared and holes punched in the shingle sea bank threaten the whole of the marshes.
(14) They say there is particular concern in the Hunstanton area, where some of the shingle bank has been swept away, and there are reports that Mundesley Cliff Vale Road car park has been washed into the sea.
(15) Four polymorphic loci were studied on an extensive shingle beach at Dungeness.
(16) Herpes zoster or shingles is caused by the DNA virus, varicella-zoster virus, and its major morbidity in older patients is postherpetic neuralgia.
(17) The government would also extend free vaccinations for the shingles virus to older Australians aged 70 to 79 on the national immunisation program, she said.
(18) The other causes of facial paralysis in children are very much less common: a frigore or viral, traumatic, occur ring in the course of acute poliomyelitis, shingles or tumours of the middle ear.
(19) Using the polymerase chain reaction, we performed postmortem examinations of trigeminal and thoracic ganglia of 23 subjects 33 to 88 years old who had not recently had chickenpox or shingles to identify the presence of latent varicella-zoster viral DNA.
(20) Herpes zoster (shingles) is a viral infection that results from a reactivation of a dormant varicella zoster virus.