What's the difference between garbled and marbled?

Garbled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Garble

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
  • (2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
  • (3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
  • (4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
  • (5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
  • (6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
  • (7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
  • (8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
  • (9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
  • (10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
  • (11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
  • (12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
  • (13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
  • (14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
  • (15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
  • (16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
  • (17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
  • (18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
  • (19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
  • (20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.

Marbled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Marble
  • (a.) Made of, or faced with, marble.
  • (a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.
  • (a.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
  • (2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
  • (3) Our meeting is in the Presidential Palace in Damascus, a place of vast halls and marble floors.
  • (4) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
  • (5) Marbling scores were not distributed normally with both positive skewness and kurtosis (P less than .001).
  • (6) Relative to Chinese crosses, longissimus muscles from Duroc crosses had more marbling (P less than .05).
  • (7) Metres away, the yellow flag of the militant group covered a freshly covered hole in a white marble floor.
  • (8) "And nor have I come as a teacher to give grades," she added, now focusing intently on the marble floor.
  • (9) It's very reminiscent of a similar death almost a year ago, when a "middle-aged trade unionist" collapsed and died during a protest ( details ) Updated at 1.42pm BST 1.31pm BST 30,000 join Athens protests Reuters reckons that more than 30,000 people took part in today's demonstrations in Athens, and that the trouble began when "a small group of protesters" began throwing marble, bottles and petrol bombs at the ropt police who were "barricading part of the square".
  • (10) It seemed to me watching the film that the concept of the cloud was another great piece of airy obfuscation on the part of the internet corporations, who like to peddle the childlike and the playful in the way that banks used to flog you credit cards called Smile and Egg and Marbles and Goldfish, to encourage you not to think too hard about the small print (what could possibly go wrong?).
  • (11) Pen-raised North American wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo L.) were experimentally infected with marble spleen disease (MSD) to determine their susceptibility to this disease.
  • (12) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
  • (13) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
  • (14) The key difference is in the role of the tourier who rolls the dough out on their chilled marble slabs or tours .
  • (15) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
  • (16) The effects of zinc methionine on carcass quality grade and marbling score may be due to Zn and (or) methionine.
  • (17) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
  • (18) Numerous witnesses claim that Said, who had earlier posted an online video of local police officers apparently dividing up the spoils of a drug haul, was attacked in an internet cafe by the two plainclothes officials who kicked and punched him before eventually smashing his head against a marble table-top.
  • (19) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
  • (20) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.

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