marble
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- noun
- /ˈmɑːrbl/
- High windows provided light, and a white marble staircase swept grandly up to the second floor.
- white marble
- polished marble
- slab of marble
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- It's looks a bit of a boring block of marble, that's what it is.
- This is a flask which contains marble chips, marble chips, that's calcium carbonate.
- And then here is where my beautiful giant marble table will go.
- They were beautiful, polished marble, white.
- It's going to be wood and marble and stone and those sorts of things, right?
- But he gifted Elton, Elton John a colossal marble penis.
Examples
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Inside, a cleaning crew was busy polishing the marble floor with electric polishers.
Fiction book (1991) -
The grand entrance featured a stunning marble staircase that impressed all the guests.
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It's just so much marble, beautiful.
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You just put the mail on the marble table.
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By the time his feet touched the marble floor, the room was bright as day.
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I know what the marble in the bathrooms looks like.
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The altar rests upon white marble steps placed in the middle of an open space.
Academic text (1995) -
Local limestone for the walls, imported marble for the columns.
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The altar reliquary was not complete in all its marble, wood, iron, and crystal components until 1693.
Academic text (1995) -
Its plaster effusions were painted institutional green, but the marble floor still impressed Janet mightily.
Fiction book (1991)
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.9
An inherited condition in which bones become very dense and hard, reducing the space inside bones for making blood cells
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8.4
A hard stone used for decoration with smooth bands and a little see-through, shiny look
- Indian
A large tree from Asia with hard wood marked by dark and light swirling lines
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Marble for the polished stone comes from Greek mármaros and Latin marmor, which mean 'shining', so marble is a rock known for its smooth, glossy surface.