granite
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- noun
- /ˈɡrænɪt/
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granito
- Get ourselves a nice house, granite countertops, pastel walls.
- a granite rock
- a granite slab
- a block of granite
But they were actually stripping the the granite away from the pyramid.
- But they were actually stripping the the granite away from the pyramid.
- And oh it's got the highest grade granite you can get from Italy.
- And it's made of granite, right?
- And I dropped it and the the lens hit the granite and just and split in half.
- Tell Francesca to find out the metric weight ton of granite.
- You could also see this blackness on the rocks down there, which I think is granite.
- The only thing that would survive would be the stone work we made specifically with granite.
Examples
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Others doubled up to carry massive granite blocks that would once again become the temple floor.
Academic text (2003) -
I just know we got about a million ton of granite down there in that hole.
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You should see the granite you have to put in this thing.
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And oh it's got the highest grade granite you can get from Italy.
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They're made from a really particular granite from one place in Scotland.
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Most of the granite tombstones are coming from India.
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Twenty tons of granite carved by 1,000 craftsmen over a 100 years.
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And of course, one of the most impressive locations in the film was an old granite quarry, one of a few that can be found on Mount Desert Island.
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Here was a woman in a trenchcoat, bending over a granite marker, carefully setting down a pink nosegay.
Fiction book (1991) -
The grand new main library, built of gray granite from Maine, was dedicated on Jan. 6, 1912.
Synonyms
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Hard natural stone that you find on the ground or underground
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A hard natural rock used for building or a small piece of it
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A hard, solid material that forms when hot, melted rock cools
Idioms
Compounds
- South African
A small plant that grows in clumps with thick grey-green leaves that look like stones
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Granite comes from the Latin granum, meaning 'grain', and is the same root as the English word grain. The rock was named for its many small grains, which helps you remember it is a very hard, coarse stone used in buildings and monuments.