Marble



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• n. 大理石
• ［英］ n. 大理石 ( a hard sort of stone used for building, sculpture)
• ［类］ canvas : painter / marble : sculptor ( 画家用画布画画 / 雕刻家用大理石雕刻)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros
• Date: 12th century
• 1.
  • a. limestone that is more or less crystallized by metamorphism, that ranges from granular to compact in texture, that is capable of taking a high polish, and that is used especially in architecture and sculpture
  • b. something (as a piece of sculpture) composed of or made from marble
  • c. something suggesting marble (as in hardness, coldness, or smoothness) <a heart of marble>
• 2.
  • a. a little ball made of a hard substance (as glass) and used in various games
  • b. plural but singular in construction any of several games played with these little balls
  • c. plural the rewards to be won in competition especially for a championship — used in the phrase all the marbles<a game being played for all the marbles>
• 3. marbling
• 4. plural elements of common sense; especially sanity <persons who are born without all their marbles — Arthur Miller>
• ? marble adjective

II. transitive verb (marbled; marbling)

• Date: 1675
• to give a veined or mottled appearance to <marble the edges of a book>

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