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42 lines
2.7 KiB
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{
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"pebbly":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a small usually rounded stone especially when worn by the action of water":[],
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": an irregular, crinkled, or grainy surface":[],
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": to grain (a material, such as leather) so as to produce a rough and irregularly indented surface":[],
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": to pave or cover with pebbles or something resembling pebbles":[],
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": to pelt with pebbles":[],
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": transparent and colorless quartz : rock crystal":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"In 1996, an archaeologist named Aly A. Barakat was doing fieldwork in an Egyptian desert and stumbled across an unusual shiny black pebble now known as the Hypatia stone (after Hypatia of Alexandria). \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 2 June 2022",
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"Consider styles made from materials meant to get better with each wear, like nubuck or pebble -grained leather. \u2014 Shelby Ying Hyde, Harper's BAZAAR , 30 May 2022",
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"The red eventually faded to pink and back to tan, but ever since, the county has policed movie crews, and fined and banished those that alter so much as a pebble . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
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"In her circa 1928 photograph of an empty concrete amphitheater at Mills College, for instance, bands of dark and light curve outward like ripples of water from a pebble dropped in a pond, filling the frame. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"Into the frame came the penguin\u2019s mate, carrying a pebble . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"Landing at the airport on the tiny West African island of Pr\u00edncipe, the plane seems to skim the top of the dense jungle canopy, almost like a pebble skipping the surface of the water. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 30 Jan. 2022",
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"The pebble -like synthetic plastic polymer, stored in refrigerator-sized boxes in one wing of Erika\u2019s facility, is also used to make vinyl flooring, fake leather and credit cards. \u2014 Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
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"Ripples stir the surface, and then the other pool\u2014the pool that never felt the pebble \u2014starts moving to its rhythm. \u2014 Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English pobble , from Old English papolst\u0101n , from papol- (of unknown origin) + st\u0101n stone":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8pe-b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011305",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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}
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} |