MARBLE

marble

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

marble

(noun) a sculpture carved from marble

marble

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

marble

(verb) paint or stain like marble; “marble paper”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

marble (countable and uncountable, plural marbles)

(uncountable, rock) A rock of crystalline limestone.

Hypernym: limestone

(countable, games) A small ball, usually of glass or ceramic.

(countable, art) An artwork made from marble.

Hyponyms

• (small ball): china, plaster

Verb

marble (third-person singular simple present marbles, present participle marbling, simple past and past participle marbled)

(transitive) 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.

Synonym: marbleize

(intransitive) 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.

(transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

Synonym: marbleize

(intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.

(by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.

Adjective

marble (comparative more marble, superlative most marble)

Made of, or resembling, marble.

(figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.

Anagrams

• Ambler, Balmer, Blamer, ambler, blamer, lamber, ramble

Proper noun

Marble (plural Marbles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Marble is the 5940^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5796 individuals. Marble is most common among White (80.5%) and Black/African American (13.54%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Ambler, Balmer, Blamer, ambler, blamer, lamber, ramble

Source: Wiktionary

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Mar"ble, n. Etym: [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. Marmoreal.]

1. 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.

Note: Breccia marble consists of limestone fragments cemented together.

– Ruin marble, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins, due to disseminated iron oxide.

– Shell marble contains fossil shells.

– Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind, including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means, hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as, marble-breasted, marble- faced, marble-hearted.

Mar"ble, a.

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

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

Mar"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marbling.] Etym: [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble, n.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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