Marble
['mɑːb(ə)l] or ['mɑrbl]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Roderick--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a marble quarry, denotes that you life will be a financial success, but that your social surroundings will be devoid of affection. To dream of polishing marble, you will come into a pleasing inheritance. To see it broken, you will fall into disfavor among your associates by defying all moral codes.
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Examples
- At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A large marble tomb would not please me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Paler than marble, with white lips and convulsed features, Idris became aware of my situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Making carbon dioxide from marble and hydrochloric acid. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He obtained, by fusion, a crystalline carbonate resembling marble. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the wood and coal we burn, the marble we employ in building, the indispensable soap, and the ornamental diamond, all contain carbon in some form. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What did she mean by that allusion to the cold people who petrify flesh to marble? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She cried fit to break her heart; her ringlets fell over her face, and over the marble mantelpiece where she laid it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is built entirely of precious marbles, brought from the Orient --nothing in its composition is domestic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Checker: Nellie