Definitions for marbles
mar·bles

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. marblesnoun

   a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)

2. wits, marblesnoun

   the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception

   "he used his wits to get ahead"; "I was scared out of my wits"; "he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind"

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1. marblesnoun

   Any of several children's games played with small glass balls.

   Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses, and marbles are among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.

2. marblesnoun

   Tokens of sanity. (Esp. all one's marbles and lose one's marbles.)

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1. marbles

   A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about 13 mm (1⁄2 in) in diameter. These toys can be used for a variety of games called marbles, as well being placed in marble runs or races, or created as a form of art. They are often collected, both for nostalgia and for their aesthetic colors. Sizes may range from less than 1 mm (1⁄30 in) to over 8 cm (3 in), while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm (12 in) wide. In the North of England the objects and the game are called "taws", with larger taws being called "bottle washers" after the use of a marble in Codd-neck bottles, which were often collected for play.

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1. marbles

   [from mainstream “lost all his/her marbles”] The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. “This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile hello world.”

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1. marbles

   Song lyrics by marbles -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by marbles on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. • Child's Game
   • Intelligence

Anagrams for marbles »

1. amblers

2. blamers

3. rambles

How to pronounce marbles?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say marbles in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of marbles in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of marbles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of marbles in a Sentence

1. Prokopis Pavlopoulos:

   Let the British Museum come here and make the comparison between this (Acropolis) museum of light and the murky, if I may say, prison of the British Museum where the Parthenon Marbles are held as trophies.

2. Prokopis Pavlopoulos:

   This museum can host the Marbles, we are fighting a holy battle for a monument which is unique.

3. Damian Lillard:

   Its basically a game where only one team is going to make it out, its your last opportunity to play, so facing elimination is what it is to me, and thats going to be my approach, just like it was tonight. The only thing is that its going to be on the road. Its for our season. All the marbles.

4. Jim Manley:

   There is no more clarifying debate in politics these days then when it comes to Supreme Court nominees, this now is for all the marbles.

5. Stewart Rhodes:

   Almost every gun owner I spoke to is very concerned that this is for all the marbles and we're heading for a civil war.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=marbles
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Marbles
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbles
4. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Marbles