(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.
Marmoreal
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Marmorean
Example Sentences:
(1) Unicompartmental replacement using the Marmor prosthesis was done in 40 knees (37 patients) with medial compartment gonarthrosis.
(2) In hyperextension, knees replaced with the ICLH, Marmor and Total Condylar prostheses failed by rupture of the posterior capsule at moments of about 60 newton-metres, compared with about 100 for natural knees.
(3) The absorption of a macular edema after creation of a "leak" by sungazing can be explained by the hypothesis (Marmor) that most "leaks" do not cause subretinal fluid but represent diffusion of fluorescein down a concentration gradient into the subretinal fluid.
(4) A follow-up of 2 years or more on 105 patients with the Modular (Marmor) knee replacement revealed that 88 per cent of the patients had a successful result.
(5) The revisions were performed with McIntosh, Marmor, Attenborough, Guepar, and various types of tricompartmental prostheses.
(6) 100 unicompartmental knee prosthesis type Marmor-Cartier with 86 replacements of the medial compartment have been followed for a period of 5 to 15 years.
(7) Twenty-one osteoarthritic knees with an average varus angulation of 13 degrees were followed up for 7-10 years after resurfacing with the Marmor compartmental knee arthroplasty.
(8) Molecular weight determination by gel permeation chromatography and analysis of crystallinity using Fourier transformation infra-red spectroscopy demonstrated that St George polyethylene had higher molecular weight and crystallinity than Marmor polyethylene.
(9) Guépar hinges were used in 21 knees and Marmor modular knees in 4.
(10) When compared with our earlier Marmor series, the PCA unicompartmental arthroplasties were better.
(11) The patient had marmorated skin, hypoplastic penis and undescended testes.
(12) After Marmor arthroplasty lateral patellar dislocation was found in seven knees, in six causing pain.
(13) 41 cases were of the unconstrained type (Marmor, Bechtol, and Oxford), while 101 cases were of the constrained type (St. Georg hinge and Endo-Model).
(14) With the Marmor prosthesis the anterior cruciate ligament was avulsed at about 20 newton-metres compared with about 75 in natural knees, suggesting that in this respect the retention of the cruciate ligaments contributes little.
(15) Thirty-seven patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis were treated by replacement arthroplasty using the Marmor modular prosthesis and each patient was followed for at least two years.
(16) Unicompartmental replacement with a Marmor knee prosthesis was performed in 53 patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis (OA).
(17) Fifty-six consecutive knees were operated on for single compartment disease using the Marmor modular knee with a minimum follow-up of four years.
(18) The Marmor designs showed the least wear, with shiny depressions and surface pitting; no delamination was observed in the Marmor prosthesis.
(19) Marmor sees the lesion of the pigmentary epithelium as a disturbance of a cyclic action of the AMP neeth the neurosensory layer of the retina.
(20) One-half of the McIntosh and Marmor arthroplasties and one-third of the Attenborough and Guepar arthroplasties, altogether 17 cases, showed signs of potential roentgenographic failure.