marble
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- noun
- /ˈmɑːrbl/
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canica
- When the child has received a predetermined number of marbles, he or she receives a reward.
- play with marbles
He was playing some marble and Hayden was hitting on me.
- He was playing some marble and Hayden was hitting on me.
- Yeah, Japanese ramen soda, the marble one for a treat.
- If you think about it, if you will swallow a marble, it still has a chance to get out.
- So we have a gravitational force and this object is like a marble falling in a VAT of oil.
Examples
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"Students are asked, "How many marbles will fit into the large ball?"
Academic text (1999) -
I've lost my marbles.
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Thank you so much for rolling that marble into my bread room.
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The size of a marble or a jewel.
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A marble dropped and when the marble dropped the marble didn't go.
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While you can still play marbles.
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Then, for dessert, we each had a bag of chocolate marbles, but I turned mine down.
Fiction book (1995) -
And you don't want to play with these marbles, kids.
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On seeing Suzie, Sunny jumps up, knocking the can of marbles over the kitchen floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
The children took turns tossing their marbles into the small circle drawn in the sand.
Synonyms
A small round object like a marble or bead
Compounds
- Indian
A large tree from Asia with hard wood marked by dark and light swirling lines
- Specialized
An inherited condition in which bones become very dense and hard, reducing the space inside bones for making blood cells
- Specialized
A hard stone used for decoration with smooth bands and a little see-through, shiny look
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Marble for the small round toy got its name from the hard stone called marble, because children long ago often used little pieces of that shiny rock as balls.