ALL meanings of marbles
mar·ble
M m - noun marbles (not in technical use) any of various breccias or other stones that take a high polish and show a variegated pattern. 1
- noun marbles a marbled appearance or pattern; marbling: The woodwork had a greenish marble. 1
- noun marbles anything resembling marble in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.: a brow of marble. 1
- noun marbles something lacking in warmth or feeling. 1
- noun marbles a little ball made of stone, baked clay, glass, porcelain, agate, or steel, especially for use in games. 1
- noun marbles marbles, (used with a singular verb) a game for children in which a marble is propelled by the thumb to hit another marble so as to drive it out of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground. 1
- noun marbles marbles, Slang. normal rational faculties; sanity; wits; common sense: to have all one's marbles; to lose one's marbles. 1
- adjective marbles consisting or made of marble. 1
- adjective marbles like marble, as in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc. 1
- adjective marbles lacking in warmth, compassion, or sympathy: marble heart. 1
- adjective marbles of variegated or mottled color. 1
- verb with object marbles to color or stain like variegated marble. 1
- verb with object marbles to apply a decorative pattern to (paper, the edges of a book, etc.) by transferring oil pigments floating on water. 1
- noun Definition of marbles in Technology (jargon) (From the mainstream "lost his 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." 1
- noun marbles Stain or streak (something) so that it looks like variegated marble. 1
- noun marbles metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture. 1
- noun marbles any variety of this stone: Carrara marble. 1
- noun marbles an object made of or carved from this stone, especially a sculpture: Renaissance marbles. 1
- noun marbles a piece of this stone: the fallen marbles of Roman ruins. 1
- noun marbles plural of marble. 0
- noun marbles (plural only) Any of several children's games played with small glass balls. 0
- noun marbles (plural only, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity. 0
- noun marbles (racing, plural only) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners. 0
- verb marbles third-person singular simple present indicative form of marble. 0
- noun marbles a game in which marbles are rolled at one another, similar to bowls 0
- noun marbles wits 0