marbles
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- noun
- /ˈmɑrbəlz/
:
canicas
- When children play marbles, they try to hit other marbles with small glass balls.
And I remember the first time it happened, actually, I was playing with marbles.
- And I remember the first time it happened, actually, I was playing with marbles.
- And each one of those causes those marbles to move in one or two of the various hula hoops.
- So this mechanism right here actually counts the number of of marbles that fall through the contraption.
- I'm big Thanos guy, you know, I'm all about my marble stuff.
- When you say no, the marbles in that hula hoop lying essentially parallel to the floor move around.
Examples
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Marbles could be rolled along the curbside.
Academic text (1990) -
And you know, the, the toys that we had, we, we would play with marbles, which we call kanikas in Spanish.
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When I was a kid and we played marbles, them crazy looking marbles.
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So let me put some marbles in here and see how they end up in that board.
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And from this end I roll a marble and see what happens.
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Marbles were never removed from the jar.
Academic text (2015) -
If you won, you would need marbles to get your squid out.
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And they would try to talk with these marbles in their mouth so that they would have to practice getting better and better and better at speaking and at projecting.
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She carefully aimed and rolled her marbles to knock out her opponent's balls.
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In the backyard, we spent hours playing marbles, trying to see who could hit the most targets.
Idioms
- Informal
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To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
Compounds
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A group of ancient Greek marble sculptures and parts from the Parthenon in Athens kept in the British Museum
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Marbles comes from the hard stone marble that people once used to make the small round balls, and later the balls were made of glass but kept the same name. So the game is called after the material of the balls.