GRANITE

granite

(noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); “a man of granite”

granite

(noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Granite

An island in South Australia

A town in Colorado

A town in Oklahoma

A census-designated place in Utah

An unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States.

Anagrams

• Tangier, angrite, ingrate, tangier, tearing

Etymology

Noun

granite (countable and uncountable, plural granites)

(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.

(uncountable, figurative) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.

Hyponyms

• (rock): syenite

Anagrams

• Tangier, angrite, ingrate, tangier, tearing

Source: Wiktionary

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Gran"ite, n. Etym: [It. granito granite, adj., grainy, p. p. of granire to make grainy, fr. L. granum grain; cf. F. granit. See Grain.] (Geol.)

Definition: A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

Note: Varieties containing hornblende are common. See also the Note under Mica. Gneissoid granite, granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement.

– Graphic granite, granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters.

– Porphyritic granite, granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals.

– Hornblende granite, or Syenitic granite, granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica.

– Granite ware. (a) A kind of stoneware. (b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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