(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.
Princess
Definition:
(n.) A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.
(n.) The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family.
(n.) The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(2) One hundred cases of histologically proven corneal and conjunctival tumours were extracted from the records at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and from the senior author's private practice in the last ten years.
(3) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(4) As a suitor for the hand of a beautiful princess, you’ll have to overcome the royal family, the palace guards and rival players to deliver your love letter.
(5) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(6) I tell her she could be a princess who goes out to work.
(7) Princess Anne is also in evidence, currently watching the ice skating clad in a Team GB Russian-style fur hat, but I have no picture to show you.
(8) Whether you are a princess or a queen you are here in Europe and you must work as a prostitute’.
(9) Her worries were confirmed hours later, when Manuel Delgado, another lawyer emerged from the courtroom during a recess and declared "the princess came very prepared to evade any questions".
(10) He was at the forefront of a number of big stories, managing to break some of the key revelations contained in Andrew Morton's book about Princess Diana before the Sunday Times, which had bought the serialisation rights, could publish them.
(11) The judge said putting the princess on the stand would remove "any shadow of suspicion" that she is receiving special treatment, El Pais reported.
(12) The Geriatric Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit (ARU) and acute general medical wards of the Princess Margaret Hospital made little use of the specialised Diabetes Services for help in managing known or newly diagnosed diabetics.
(13) A n exhibition of Princess Diana’s old dresses, at Kensington Palace , is the inaugural event in the 20th anniversary of her death, aged 36, in 1997.
(14) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(15) There are strong indications that Episode VII will centre on the key trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, played by original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
(16) Still under wraps A 1978 cabinet paper by Tony Benn arguing for more openness and greater public accountability for the work of the security services A 1978 Downing Street file on "the alleged penetration of the security services" A 1978 Downing Street file on the constitutional and financial implications of the divorce of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon
(17) A letter from Willetts to the prime minister claims the idea has the support of both the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne.
(18) According to Peter Biskind's book, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film, famous examples include Shaolin Soccer, Hero and Princess Mononoke.
(19) Its takeover of Princess Royal University hospital in Kent in October 2013 had hit its balance sheet, it said.
(20) Although there has been no official confirmation of the ruling, Princess Amira al-Taweel, wife of the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, tweeted: "Thank God, the lashing of [Shaima] is cancelled.