Sekirov Dictionary

marble

UK /ˈmɑː.bəl/US /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/

verb 5
noun 4
adjective 2
forms 5

verb5

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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.
- In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...] — 1899
To get or have 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.
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To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
- Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier. — 1848
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To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
- We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better. — 1999
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(figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
- Was he the reason for the bitterness that seemed to marble her character? — 1993

noun4

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A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
- Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb. — 1751
A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
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[in the plural] Statues made from marble.
- The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon.
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The marbling in meat.
- The marble is graded using the Australian system.

adjective2

Made of, or resembling, marble.
(figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.

forms

marbled · marbling · marbles · more marble · most marble

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