Marble is a very hard rock that's a particular type of limestone. Fancy lobbies (and even bathrooms) are often lined with marble.
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.
Noun
a small ball of glass that is used in various games
Noun
a sculpture carved from marble
Noun
a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
Verb
paint or stain like marble; "marble paper"
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
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.
a.
Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble
paper.
a.
Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
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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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.
Made of, or resembling, marble;
To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color;
Usage Examples
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Other Usage ExamplesA sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.