marbles : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: marbles	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for marbles
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
marbles n a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass) 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" Synonym(s): wits, marbles
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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 (15Feb98) [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)