What's the difference between marbling and streaky?

Marbling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marble
  • (n.) The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.
  • (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.
  • (n.) Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects.

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.

Streaky


Definition:

  • (a.) Same as Streaked, 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
  • (2) Excretory urography of a patient with an early stage of medullary cystic disease demonstrated an inhomogeneous, streaky nephrogram confined to the medulla, presumably due to accumulation of contrast material in dilated tubules.
  • (3) Let’s wind him up by cleaning the condensation off the inside of the windows using our bare hands.” That grey-haired guy in Sherlock would get really angry if you cleaned the condensation off the inside of his car windows with your bare hands; he’d shout-talk something about streaky finger marks.
  • (4) Full English breakfast SERVES 4 sausages 4 vegetable oil smoked streaky bacon 200g plum tomatoes 2 salt Portobello mushrooms 4 butter chicken stock 200ml thyme 1 sprig garlic 2 cloves, crushed black pudding 4 thick (1.5cm) slices free-range eggs 4 bread toasted Start with the sausages For me, it's about finding great ingredients and treating them with respect, as if you were building a wall or making a beautiful piece of furniture.
  • (5) In addition to a nodular pattern, reticulo-nodular, reticular, diffuse infiltrative and streaky shadowing due to fibrosis could be recognised.
  • (6) Low molecular weight proteins were resolvable into a few diffuse and streaky bands by dodecyl sulfate and chloral hydrate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the former giving superior reso-ution.
  • (7) Twenty-one of these (3 symptomatic, 18 asymptomatic) developed subpleural pulmonary abnormalities which were streaky or reticular in 7, homogeneous with a broad base against pleura in 3 and had a mixed pattern in 11 patients.
  • (8) Popovich pulls Green, AGAIN, one good way to break up a streaky player's confidence that.
  • (9) Skylarks are smallish, brown birds with a perky crest and streaky plumage.
  • (10) Yet Danny Rose’s streaky goal sparked the Spurs fightback and although this was not the result that they wanted in the race for a top-four finish – and to capitalise on Manchester United’s loss at Swansea City on Saturday – they were more than happy to take it.
  • (11) The only sketch comedian who really preceded them was Spike Milligan, and his work was streaky, too.
  • (12) If you slap on too many coats it goes all streaky, too few and it just looks weak.
  • (13) The CT findings were linear and streaky densities in the pericecal fat compatible with pericecal inflammation (seven cases), intramural abscess (one case), thickening of the cecal wall (two cases), and cecal diverticulum (one case).
  • (14) As a result, the press had approximately 200m images of crying Brazilian faces to choose from: players, politicians, fans with streaky face paint, families in favelas, children wearing glasses, old men with moustaches clutching replica trophies, jaguars in the rainforest.
  • (15) The distinctive radiographic feature in the child was an endosteal pattern of hyperostosis marked by streakiness of the long bones and spotting of the small.
  • (16) The radiographic pattern in the course of experimentally infected Rhesus monkeys with the two African fluke species Paragonimus africanus and P. uterobilateralis consist of hilar dilatation, streaky, patchy or diffuse shadows, cavities, atelectases and pleural reactions.
  • (17) We needed a different way to try to penetrate, and David found more room in the second half.” Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling: I did not say I was too tired to play for England Read more While there was a touch of good fortune about Agüero’s second, a deflection off Yoan Gouffran making life difficult for Krul when the goalkeeper might otherwise have had the shot covered, there was nothing streaky about the rest.
  • (18) Serves 4 1.2kg potatoes, preferably Maris Piper or King Edward, peeled and cut into roughly 4cm chunks 1 small green savoy cabbage (about 450g), trimmed and finely shredded 75g butter, cubed 6 rindless smoked streaky bacon rashers, cut into 3cm pieces 6 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced 125ml double cream 4 large fridge-cold eggs Flaked sea salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 Put the potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with cold water.
  • (19) When your city’s default backdrop is drizzle, streaky concrete and endless branches of Greggs, it’s easy to yearn wistfully for sparkling skyscrapers, chrome-plated diners and avenue canyons stretching to infinity.
  • (20) In addition to predominating basally localized streaky-nodular lung changes all patients had hepatosplenomegaly and granulomatous infections of other organs.

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