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# pebble

«pebble» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, smooth, round stone, often found on beaches and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pebble, pebbles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pebble is a small, smooth, round stone, often found on beaches and in rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#m1)

2) Pebbles are rounded because water rubbed them for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science pebbles show erosion: moving water and waves wear rough rocks into smooth stones. In everyday life children collect pebbles, skim them on water, and see pebble beaches. Phrases: «a pebble beach», «skim pebbles», «as smooth as a pebble».

### examples

- She found a white pebble on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x1)
- We skimmed pebbles across the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x2)
- The river had rolled the pebbles until they were smooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x3)
- The path was covered with grey pebbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x4)
- Never throw pebbles at people or cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x5)
- Put some pebbles at the bottom of the fish tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x6)
- In the story Hansel dropped white pebbles to find the way home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x7)
- The other denied in anger that he had thrown the pebble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/#x8)

### note

Countable: one pebble, many pebbles. A pebble is bigger than a grain of sand or gravel but smaller than a rock or boulder. Do not put small pebbles in your mouth or nose; young children can choke on them.

### In the corpora

- [Ostriches swallow pebbles, which collect in the gizzard and grind tough food, because birds have no teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/12/)
- [The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names, but he leads them all back to the river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/8/)
- [Conglomerate is a rock made of rounded pebbles, rolled smooth by rivers or waves, cemented together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks/10/)
- [Curiosity found smooth, rounded pebbles like those in a stream, a sign that water once flowed there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/13/)
- [Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, ranging from pebbles to hundreds of kilometres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pebble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pebble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.