marble

marble englannista suomeksi

1. marmoripatsas

2. marmori

3. marmorikuula

4. marmoroida

0. Substantiivi

1. marmori

2. marmorikuula, lasikuula, pissikivi

2. Verbi

3. marmoroida

4. marmoroitua

marble englanniksi

1. A rock of crystalline limestone. (defdate)

(hyper)

2. 1751, (w) (librettist), ''(w)'':

Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.

3. A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. (defdate)

4. Statues made from marble. (defdate)

(ux)

5. (quote-book)|title=Nollekens and His Times|publisher=Century Hutchinson|year_published=1986|page=164

6. 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.

(syn)

7. {{quote-text|en|year=1774|author=William Hutchinson|title=An excursion to the lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773|page=29

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1899|title=Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor|volume=1|page=106

9. 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.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Alicia Grosso|title=The Everything Soapmaking Book: Recipes and Techniques|page=125

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

12. 1848, Samuel D. Martin, in a letter to the ''Albany Cultivator'', quoted in the ''Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture'' (for the year 1859; published 1860), page 157:

Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier.

13. {{quote-text|en|year=1904|title=Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture for the year 1903|page=309

14. {{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Mary Ellen Snodgrass|title=Encyclopedia of kitchen history|page=684

15. To become interlaced with fat; to interlace through meat.

16. {{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=Kathleen Jo Ryan|title=Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words|page=99

17. (quote-book)

18. {{quote-text|en|year=1972|author=Sondra Gotlieb|title=The Gourmet’s Canada|page=129

19. To lace or be laced throughout.

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1993|author=Susan Napier|title=Winter of Dreams|page=52

21. {{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Scott Bevan|title=Battle Lines: Australian Artists at War

22. Made of, or resembling, marble.

23. Cold; hard; unfeeling.