(n.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples.
(n.) A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.
(n.) A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.
(n.) A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.
(v. t.) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
(v. t.) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
(v. t.) To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass.
(v. i.) To become weary; to lose spirit.
Example Sentences:
(1) FreeKachin (@FreeKachin) Nov 10, 5pm, attached object fell off of the sky at Tin Aung Kyaing mining lot in Hpakant Jade tract.
(2) Without question, Corbyn takes seriously his mission to bring hope to those who have lost faith in politics; those jaded by the requirement to fall in behind leaders with whom they only partially agree.
(3) But in the past year one towered above the others as if not the biggest then the most extraordinary media story of the year – the death of Jade Goody.
(4) I'm 64 and I've got four-year-old twins, so it's not unusual for me to look jaded, especially if they've woken each other up during the night.
(5) At CPAC, conservatives dedicated an entire panel to “The Future of Marriage.” One could be forgiven for assuming it tackled the issue via the sub-topic “Gays, and the Ickiness Thereof,” because that was the default assumption among those attending CPAC as part of an ongoing More Jaded Than Thou contest.
(6) Drinks at Jade Bar are in keeping with the spa setting: fruity and herbaceous “muddles” (alcoholic or not) are a speciality, and the bartenders host mixology sessions on Sundays, or by appointment.
(7) "The public in the US are increasingly jaded about the death penalty.
(8) In March, April, May you could see he was a bit jaded.
(9) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
(10) Countless high-profile stories have been shared by black supermodels Naomi Campbell, Iman and Jourdan Dunn about the jaded perceptions of diversity in the fashion industry.
(11) So, perhaps, on reflection, it was just a little bit ambitious of Britain's Eurovision hopeful, Jade Ewen, to sing a song entitled "It's my time".
(12) So in allowing Jade and her counterparts to discriminate against Shilpa Shetty, Channel 4 has strayed beyond the protection it could argue it has under article 10.
(13) Nevertheless, perception is key and more and more South Africans view the ANC's glass as half-empty: a jaded organisation tarnished by corruption, delivering too little too slowly and in inexorable decline.
(14) The Hall of Ice and Jade – named after the saying "as pure as jade, as unsullied as ice" – was built to shelter these women in old age, although it is now a museum.
(15) Wigan looked jaded in their 61st game of a marathon campaign and this sterile stalemate served to suggest that Derby are the most vibrant team competing for the remaining spot in next season's Premier League.
(16) But the data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) should shock even the most jaded of negotiators.
(17) Jade has virtually no chance of success, given the tactical voting at Eurovision by former Soviet bloc and Balkan nations - a phenomenon that last year prompted Terry Wogan to resign in disgust from his job as Eurovision presenter.
(18) The jaded player took off for France during his eight-month ban, vowing to leave the English game.
(19) They may also have been jaded as this was their seventh match in 23 days and all but one of their starting lineup had begun the Champions League victory against Porto on Tuesday .
(20) It is important that the spirit of rainbow nation is extracted from the ennui of an increasingly jaded and complacent African National Congress, which, as with so many post-liberation ruling parties, is in danger of losing its moral compass.
Marble
Definition:
(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.
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.