Marble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture.
  • n. A piece of this rock.
  • n. A sculpture made from this rock.
  • n. Something resembling or suggesting metamorphic rock, as in being very hard, smooth, or cold: a heart of marble; a brow of marble.
  • n. Games A small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games.
  • n. Games Any of various games played with marbles.
  • n. Slang Common sense; sanity: completely lost his marbles after the stock market crash.
  • n. Marbling.
  • v. To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble.
  • adj. Composed of metamorphic rock: a marble hearth.
  • adj. Resembling metamorphic rock in consistency, texture, venation, color, or coldness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A rock of crystalline limestone.
  • n. A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games.
  • v. To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
  • v. To get the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
  • v. To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
  • v. To become interlaced with fat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
  • n. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works
  • n. A little ball of glass, marble, porcelain, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
  • adj. Made of, or resembling, marble
  • adj. Cold; hard; unfeeling.
  • v. To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Limestone in a more or less crystalline or crystalline-granular condition.
  • n. A piece of sculptured or inscribed marble, especially if having some interest as an object of study or curiosity, and more particularly if ancient; any work of art in marble: as, the Elgin marblcs. -
  • n. A little ball of marble or other stone, or of baked clay, porcelain, or glass, used by children in play; an alley. -
  • n. In glassblowing, a block or thick piece of wood in which are formed hemispherical concavities, used in the manufacture of flasks, etc., to shape the fused glass gathered upon the end of the glass-blower's pipe into an approximately spherical form by pressing and turning it over in the concavities preparatory to the blowing. See marver. [In this sense improperly spelled marbel.] -5. Marble-silk.
  • n. plural A venereal disease, probably bubo.
  • Consisting of marble: as, a marble pillar.
  • Veined or stained like marble; variegated in color; marbled.
  • Resembling or comparable to marble in some particular; hard and cold, crystalline, frigid, insensible, etc.
  • To give an appearance of marble to; stain or vein like variegated marble: as, to marble paper; a book with marbled edges. See marbling, 3.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small ball of glass that is used in various games
  • n. a sculpture carved from marble
  • v. paint or stain like marble
  • n. a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
  • Verb Form
    marbled    marbles    marbling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sculpture    stain   
    Form
    marbled    marbling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cold    hard    unfeeling    sculpture    statue    frieze    bonce    taw    alley    marmorean   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    garble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    granite    stone    bronze    brick    ivory    metal    crystal    clay    porcelain    wooden