Marbles

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  marbles \marbles\ n.
     A children's game played with marbles[3], little balls made
     of a hard substance (as glass).
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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}."
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)