marble 音标拼音: [m'ɑrbəl]
n . 大理石,石弹,雕刻品
a . 大理石的,冷酷无情的,坚硬的
大理石,石弹,雕刻品大理石的,冷酷无情的,坚硬的
marble n 1 :
a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish ;
used for sculpture and as building material 2 :
a small ball of glass that is used in various games 3 :
a sculpture carved from marble v 1 :
paint or stain like marble ; "
marble paper "
Marble \
Mar "
ble \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Marbled };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Marbling }.] [
Cf .
F .
marbrer .
See {
Marble },
n .]
To stain or vein like marble ;
to variegate in color ;
as ,
to marble the edges of a book ,
or the surface of paper .
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1913 Webster ]
Marble \
Mar "
ble \ (
m [
aum ]
r "
b '
l ),
n . [
OE .
marbel ,
marbre ,
F .
marbre ,
L .
marmor ,
fr .
Gr .
ma `
rmaros ,
fr .
marmai `
rein to sparkle ,
flash .
Cf . {
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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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3 .
A little ball of glass ,
marble ,
porcelain ,
or of some other hard substance ,
used as a plaything by children ;
or ,
in the plural ,
a child '
s game played with marbles .
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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 .
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Marble \
Mar "
ble \,
a .
1 .
Made of ,
or resembling ,
marble ;
as ,
a marble mantel ;
marble paper .
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2 .
Cold ;
hard ;
unfeeling ;
as ,
a marble breast or heart .
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210 Moby Thesaurus words for "
marble ":
Dalmatian ,
adamant ,
agate ,
alabaster ,
antigorite ,
argent ,
argentine ,
ball ,
band ,
bar ,
baseball bat ,
bat ,
battledore ,
bauble ,
bespangle ,
bespeckle ,
bespot ,
billiard table ,
blocks ,
blotch ,
bone ,
bony ,
bowling alley ,
bowling green ,
brick ,
bronze ,
butterfly ,
candy cane ,
canescent ,
cast ,
cement ,
cemental ,
chalky ,
chameleon ,
check ,
checker ,
checkerboard ,
cheetah ,
chessboard ,
chrysotile ,
club ,
cockhorse ,
concrete ,
confetti ,
corneous ,
crazy quilt ,
cretaceous ,
cricket bat ,
cue ,
dapple ,
dense ,
diamond ,
diamondlike ,
doll ,
doll carriage ,
dot ,
dure ,
firedog ,
flake ,
flat ,
fleck ,
fleecy -
white ,
flint ,
flintlike ,
flinty ,
freckle ,
frosted ,
frosty ,
gewgaw ,
gimcrack ,
glass ,
golf club ,
granite ,
granitelike ,
granitic ,
grizzled ,
grizzly ,
hard ,
hard as nails ,
hardhearted ,
harlequin ,
heart of oak ,
hoar ,
hoary ,
hobbyhorse ,
horny ,
ice ,
iris ,
iron ,
iron -
hard ,
ironlike ,
ivory ,
jack -
in -
the -
box ,
jacks ,
jackstones ,
jackstraws ,
jaguar ,
kickshaw ,
knickknack ,
lactescent ,
lapideous ,
leopard ,
level ,
lily -
white ,
lithoid ,
lithoidal ,
mackerel ,
mackerel sky ,
maculate ,
mahogany ,
marbled paper ,
marbleize ,
marblelike ,
marionette ,
marmoreal ,
mig ,
milky ,
mobile ,
moire ,
mother -
of -
pearl ,
motley ,
mottle ,
nacre ,
nails ,
niveous ,
oak ,
obdurate ,
ocelot ,
opal ,
ophite ,
osseous ,
paper doll ,
patchwork quilt ,
peacock ,
pepper ,
pick -
up sticks ,
pinwheel ,
plane ,
platinum ,
plaything ,
polychrome ,
polychromize ,
puppet ,
pure white ,
racket ,
rag doll ,
rainbow ,
resistant ,
resistive ,
rock ,
rocking horse ,
rocklike ,
rocky ,
satin ,
sculpture ,
serpentine ,
serpentine marble ,
shot silk ,
silk ,
silver ,
silvered ,
silvery ,
slide ,
smooth ,
snow -
white ,
snowy ,
solid ,
spangle ,
speck ,
speckle ,
spectrum ,
splotch ,
sport ,
spot ,
sprinkle ,
stabile ,
statue ,
steel ,
steelie ,
steellike ,
steely ,
stigmatize ,
stipple ,
stone ,
stonelike ,
stony ,
streak ,
striate ,
stripe ,
stud ,
swan -
white ,
tattoo ,
taw ,
teetotum ,
tennis court ,
terra cotta ,
tessellate ,
top ,
tortoise shell ,
tough ,
toy ,
toy soldier ,
trinket ,
variegate ,
vein ,
velvet ,
whim -
wham ,
white ,
white as snow ,
zebra Marble as a mineral ,
consists of carbonate of lime ,
its texture varying from the highly crystalline to the compact .
In Esther 1 :
6 there are four Hebrew words which are rendered marble :, (
1 .)
Shesh ,
"
pillars of marble ."
But this word probably designates dark -
blue limestone rather than marble . (
2 .)
Dar ,
some regard as Parian marble .
It is here rendered "
white marble ."
But nothing is certainly known of it . (
3 .)
Bahat , "
red marble ,"
probably the verd -
antique or half -
porphyry of Egypt . (
4 .)
Sohareth , "
black marble ,"
probably some spotted variety of marble . "
The marble pillars and tesserae of various colours of the palace at Susa came doubtless from Persia itself ,
where marble of various colours is found ,
especially in the province of Hamadan Susiana ."
The marble of Solomon '
s architectural works may have been limestone from near Jerusalem ,
or from Lebanon ,
or possibly white marble from Arabia .
Herod employed Parian marble in the temple ,
and marble columns still exist in great abundance at Jerusalem .
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