Marble

['mɑːb(ə)l] or ['mɑrbl]

解释:

(noun.) a small ball of glass that is used in various games.

(noun.) a sculpture carved from marble.

(noun.) a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material.

(verb.) paint or stain like marble; 'marble paper'.

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解释:

(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; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.

(n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

(a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.

(a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

(n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

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解释:

n. any species of limestone taking a high polish: that which is made of marble as a work of art: a little ball used by boys in play.—adj. made of marble: veined like marble: hard: insensible.—v.t. to stain or vein like marble.—adjs. Mar′ble-breast′ed hard-hearted cruel; Mar′ble-con′stant constant or firm as marble immovable.—n. Mar′ble-cut′ter one who hews marble: a machine for cutting marble.—adjs. Mar′ble-edged having the edges marbled as a book; Mar′ble-heart′ed hard-hearted insensible.—ns. Mar′ble-pā′per paper coloured in imitation of variegated marble; Mar′bler; Mar′bling the act of veining or painting in imitation of marble.—adv. Mar′bly resembling marble in the manner of marble.—Elgin marbles a collection of marbles obtained chiefly from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in 1811 now in the British Museum.

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