English-Portuguese translations for pebble

• pedra
  O velho argumento da redução dos danos é apenas a pedra que desencadeia toda a avalanche. The old chestnut of harm reduction is only the pebble that sets the landslide rolling.
  Subitamente, um regulamento que há muito tempo ocupa este Parlamento transformou-se numa pedra de mosaico neste mundo que mudou. Suddenly a regulation that has occupied us here in this House for quite some time has become a small pebble in the mosaic of this changed world.
• pedregulho
• pedrinha
• seixo
  O contributo do senhor deputado Kristensen pouco mais é do que um pequeno seixo numa derrocada de instrumentos semelhantes, mas ilustra bem aquilo que se está a passar.Mr Kristensen’s contribution is scarcely more than a tiny pebble in a landslide of such similar instruments, but it illustrates well enough what is going on.

Definition of pebble

• A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water
• A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
• Transparent and colourless rock crystal
• A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains
• To pave with pebbles
• To give a rough appearance with small rounded prominences

Examples

• Brazilian pebble
• to pebble the ice between games

Related words

• pebbles
• pebbledash
• pebble rock
• pebble tool
• pebble bed reactor
• Pebble Prominent
• pebble hook-tip
• pebble plant
• pebble grey