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marbles
(encz) | marbles,dětská hra n: Zdeněk Brož |
marbles
(encz) | marbles,kuličky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
marbles
(gcide) | marbles \marbles\ n.
A children's game played with marbles[3], little balls made
of a hard substance (as glass).
[WordNet 1.5] |
marbles
(wn) | marbles
n 1: a children's game played with little balls made of a hard
substance (as glass)
2: 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" [syn: wits, marbles] |
marbles
(foldoc) | marbles
(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."
[Jargon File]
(1998-05-21)
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marbles
(jargon) | marbles
pl.n.
[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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all his marbles
(encz) | all his marbles,rozumně Zdeněk Brož |
all the marbles
(encz) | all the marbles,hlavní výhra n: Zdeněk Brož |
lose your marbles
(encz) | lose your marbles, |
Elgin marbles
(gcide) | Elgin marbles \El"gin mar"bles\
Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at
Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
[1913 Webster] |
elgin marbles
(wn) | Elgin Marbles
n 1: a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and
fragments of architecture created by Phidias; chiefly from
the Parthenon in Athens |
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