Marble
WordNet
noun
(1) A small ball of glass that is used in various games
(2) A sculpture carved from marble
(3) A hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
verb
(4) Paint or stain like marble
"Marble paper"
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and marbre, from marmor, from (perhaps related to ‘gleaming’). Much of the early classical marble came from the 'Marmaris' sea above the Aegean. The forms from French replaced Old English marma, which had already been borrowed directly from the Latin.
Noun
- A rock of crystalline limestone.
- Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.—George Frederic Handel, Jeptha
- A small spherical ball of rock or glass used in children's games.
Verb
- To give the appearance of the streaks and swirls of types of certain marble, as by incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients or by uneven application of paint or other colorant.
- To be interlaced with fat.