Pebble vs Stones - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pebble and stones

is that pebble is a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water while stones is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

is that pebble is to pave with pebbles while stones is third-person singular of stone.

the Rolling Stones, a very successful British rock band formed in the 1960s, still together in the 21st century.

(en noun)

A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.

* Shakespeare

the pebbles on the hungry beach

* Milton

children gathering pebbles on the shore

(geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

(curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.

Transparent and colourless rock crystal.

Brazilian pebble

To pave with pebbles.

(curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice. e.g. to pebble the ice between games.

(en proper noun)

The Rolling Stones, a very successful British rock band formed in the 1960s, still together in the 21st century

* 2008 , March 22, Exile On Main St: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, by Robert Greenfield , review in , by Steven Poole

And so the Stones somehow make Exile On Main St there, in a rigged-up studio in the basement.